Word: chet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chet Kenbok, manager of the dining hall, said yesterday, "We started out cautiously this year, trying to lower our budget. Our deficit now compared to past years is not appreciable. We're going to try to loosen up and give the students a better...
...What is happening to people? This is not the country I have loved. This hate-it's becoming a lifestyle. I had to decide whether that was what I wanted for the rest of my life and for my children's lives, and I made my decision." CHET MORRISON, "2, moved to Mexico City not long after graduating from Vermont's Windham College earlier this year. He is already doing well as a professional photographer. "They classified me 1Y, so I escaped the draft," he says. "But I definitely would have left the States to avoid...
...missing, ABC News President Elmer Lower concluded, was what he called a "box office value" anchor man. A national survey commissioned from an audience-research firm showed that CBS's Walter Cronkite was America's favorite; No. 2 was not NBC's David Brinkley or Chet Huntley (he was still around then) or even Reynolds' fellow commentator, Howard K. Smith. It was the CBS back-up man, Reasoner...
Dang right, pardner. Not even the redoubtable Lee Marvin, sadly cast in the title role of Monte Walsh. He and Chet (Jack Palance) amble vaguely across Southwestern cattle country, swapping hand-rolled cigarettes and saddle-sore lines that would make a dogie bleat in an guish. Screenwriters Lukas Heller and David Goodman apparently drew their ideas from The Misfits and The Wild Bunch and hawg-tied them with early Zane Grey dialogue. The resulting wrangle is a tale of aging cowpokes in a changing West that ain't worth the price of a good branding iron...
...classic westerns, the Bad Guys were easily recognizable by their black hats. Here they are unseen Eastern accountants, identified as bad because they call money "capital." The banks have taken over one of the last of the big spreads, and Monte and Chet hire on for want of more respectable work. Chet eventually gives it all up to wed the hardware-store widow, but Monte won't relinquish his ways even for the golden-hearted, dross-tongued whore (Jeanne Moreau) he loves. By the time the film ends, just about everyone has been killed off except Marvin and Director...