Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does the killing is a psychopath who had himself been brutalized by cops. When he realizes that the woman is a police man's wife, he goes crazy. The implication that violence breeds more violence is not novel, but welcome nonetheless in a time when audiences cheer and holler as Charles Bronson plays judge and jury with a pistol...
...recognize the grievances of OSTWS as valid, although we doubt that "Birth of a Nation" is such potent propaganda that it would foment race prejudice among college students or that a majority of the students attending our meeting came to cheer on the white oppressor. OSTWS should remember that in addition to "Birth of a Nation" we announced a screening of "The Great Train Robbery." Both are very early silent American films. Each in its way is a landmark in the development of film-making; each represents prodigious advances in film technology, direction and cinematography. The subjects...
...schoolroom, masturbation contests in a car, an encounter with a fat, aging woman with enormous breasts. There are asides (Titta's grandfather lost in the fog and thinking himself dead), bits of local color (practically the whole town moving out of the harbor in small boats to cheer a new ocean liner). Under all, there is a steady stream of events that do not change: a family death, a wedding...
...sitting room to join Nancy Howe and the Rev. Billy Zeoli, an evangelist from Grand Rapids and a longtime friend of the family who had flown down in the middle of the night to do what he could. At 6:30 a.m., Susan and Michael arrived to cheer their mother up, but she was already in fine spirits. Mrs. Ford laughed about her toeless white operating-room socks. Said she: "This will be a new item for Women's Wear Daily...
...against Zeyer's dreadful, sad old dog, Mr. Pastry, and to convince Shorty that his bladder is ruined. A Christmas dinner scene, with bored and horrified younger generations present, is a comic masterpiece in which petty ferocity, mostly masked in genteel dialogue, shatters attempts at kindness and good cheer...