Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Jack Starrett and Cinematographer John Stephens pad out their film with lots of repetitive footage of the Advocates barreling up the California coast, but they also pull off a split-screen chase scene that puts The Thomas Crown Affair to shame. As Angel and Laurie, William Smith and Valerie Starrett (the director's wife) make up in enthusiasm what they lack in finesse. Angel is obviously and deeply indebted to Bonnie and Clyde, and even more to Nicholas Ray's 1949 They Live by Night, but anyone who expects a work as accomplished as those will...
...Crimson had plenty to celebrate. Penn, with whom Harvard and Princeton were tied, had dropped a 5-4 decision to Army on Friday, eliminating them from the title chase...
...investigation of allegedly racist remarks he had made in class, after black students took over an economics department office. This year, demands for an effectively black-controlled Center for Afro-American Studies were met following a series of semiviolent and disruptive demonstrations. Months later, three alumni recruiting for the Chase Manhattan Bank were ousted by administrators faced by an angry and destructive mob. No students have been punished for such acts...
...ignored, curiously, the one element of black culture where the record of black accomplishment is not only glorious but also widely recognized and widely acclaimed: music. It is, moreover, the one area where black culture has proved both irresistibly attractive and easily accessible to whites. "Jazz," writes Gilbert Chase, "may be regarded as our most original and far-reaching contribution to the world's music...
...Fortas contretemps may quite possibly be the most serious in the Supreme Court's 180 years. No Supreme Court Justice has ever resigned under pressure. Only one-Samuel Chase in 1804-has been impeached, but on such blatantly political grounds that he was acquitted. Three years ago, it was disclosed that Justice William O. Douglas was receiving $12,000 a year in fees from a foundation linked to Las Vegas gambling interests. However, no one connected with the foundation was in immediate need of highly placed connections, as Wolfson and his associates were...