Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small group of California physicians and their spouses. The husbands have their mistresses, the wives their lovers, and both share a set of suburban hangups that would stagger the late Grace Metalious. The game of musical beds ends when one of the doctors finds his wife (Dyan Cannon) in bed with a colleague (George Gaynes). With somewhat more glee than is usual on such occasions, he shoots them both with a single bullet. The ensuing scandal threatens the philandering physicians and the large private clinic they operate when they are not busy bedding nurses, students or any female under...
...flaunted his strategy time and again: under the guise of Vietnamization, he will sanitize the war by withdrawing American troops and reducing American casualties, while turning the people of Indochina-all of them-into cannon fodder, forcing them to hunt and kill each other beneath a hail of American bombs...
Vietnamization, Protecting withdrawing American troops. The Nixon doctrine. The words mean ceaseless mass murder, brutal death from American rifles, helicopters, cannon, bombers. They mean total terror over the subcontinent of Indochina. They mean a permanent presence of an American military machine which holds the unchallenged right to strike anywhere at any time to ensure that the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Thais accept American rule...
Social Center. Reports Los Angeles Scriptwriter Bill Cannon: "I like it because it conforms to the body and it goes gush, gush when you go gush, gush." Dr. HIPpocrates, the counterculture's answer to the syndicated Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, quotes his secretary as saying: "I recommend it for women who have trouble having orgasms." Some owners, like Divorcee Linda Butler, 22, of Concord, Calif., find that the bed becomes a somewhat more general social center: "Everyone who visits me wants to see it, and we end up staying there for dinner and drinks. I do more entertaining there...
Attempting to reveal pyschology through music, Director Russell makes every character grotesque, every bar of music programmatic. Ballets are transformed into pastoral scenes, concertos into imaginary duels. In a crescendo of vulgarity, the 1812 Overture becomes, in Tchaikovsky's beleaguered brain, an execution. Each cannon shot lops off the head of a tormentor: sister (Sabina Maydelle), patron, lover...