Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miners are tired of the strike and want to go back to work. But they vehemently reject the contract that was negotiated for them two weeks ago by U.M.W. President Arnold Miller, an alumnus of District 17. "What's Arnold think he's got down here, a bunch of fools?" asks Bill Bowyer, 21. Says his uncle, Jack Bowyer, 38: "We've gone this long. If we give up now, we'd just be throwin' it all away...
...soldiers are contemptuous of the guerrillas, whom they dismiss (in the words of one sergeant) as "nothing but a bunch of bloody garden boys with weapons." Top officers are confident that the army cannot lose, militarily, and that it will have to be disbanded before it is beaten...
Beast of the Bunch...
Daniel Petrie, the director, keeps The Betsy on its lugubrious, though hardly lubricated, course; the solemnity of his touch earned unintentional laughs even from the audience I saw the film with, an unsophisticated bunch who wanted porn instead of corn. Petrie didn't even attempt to endow the cars with a mystical beauty that would explain the attraction and passion of men like Loren Hardeman Sr. Instead he gives us so many walks with beautiful girls in clothes that look like they're going to swish off against the beautiful scenery. At least John Barry's score has an attractive...
Alas, the snow has forced the fans into action. Off the sofa and into the heat of battle. At Harvard, at least, the blizzard has turned a bunch of seemingly-lobotomized color TV radiation victims into participatory sportsmen...