Word: classics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER PAN (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Mary Martin, who starred on Broadway in this musical version of the James Barrie classic and did it twice live for TV, put it on video tape in 1960. This is a replay of that tape...
...first glance, it looked like a classic Latin American power grab. A long line of cars pulled up to the La Paz military airport, and Army General Alfredo Ovando escorted Air Force General René Barrientos to the steps of a waiting C-54. Moments later, Barrientos was on his way to Switzerland. Only a few days before, Barrientos and Ovando had been co-Presidents of Bolivia's 14-month-old military junta. Now, there was only Ovando...
...pastoral dream: "an apple-scented Eden"; to wince before the senior Hickock's A History of My Boy's Life submitted to a parole board. One could fault Capote for lingering on certain settings and phenomena dear to his heart; but the substantive backdrop of In Cold Blood is classic Americana on an encyclopedic scale, rendered with the compassion, grace, and humor expected of a writer who has dared to embrace his country...
...Muzak in its exasperating qualities. There is, in short, absolutely nothing favorable one can say about this movie except that it is, in its own way, monumental. It goes beyond (or below) mediocrity to achieve a really first-rate bad movie status; in fact it probably will become the classic example to future generations. There is, one supposes, some value in this. But at any rate don't buy the glossy expensive Is Paris Burning souvenir booklet sold during intermission. You couldn't forget this film if you tried--and you will...
...leaders, Stevan Goldin '64-4, "our strategy was straight from Mao--to win the hearts of the people." One of the hardest "hard core irresponsibles," as the leaders of the North Harvard Neighborhood Association proudly and defiantly label themselves, Goldin describes the whole three-year battle as "a classic study in guerilla warfare...