Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Lavette was born to chase the promise of America. He entered the world on the floor of a cold and drafty boxcar rattling across the continent of North America in January, 1889. His parents, penniless immigrants, were traveling to San Francisco, where the Atchison Railroad had promised his father a decent wage and a decent living. But while the railroad's promise proved hollow, the lie did not deter the father's son. Dan Lavette was too tough. By the time America's economic bubble burst in 1929, Lavette had dreamed, bluffed and borrowed...
...promise young Lavette pursued turned out to be as empty as the railroad's commitment to his father. Lavette's wife was cold; his children were indifferent to him; he had lost the only woman he really cared about--his Chinese lover--because it would have been difficult to take her as a wife in racist San Francisco. When the crash of 1929 finally called Lavette's bluff, he was at the mercy of the bank holding his loans. Banks, of course, were not in the business of giving mercy, and Lavette lost his empire...
...Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming. This film will no longer seem as cathartically satirical as it did when first released in the mid-sixties, when an atmosphere of Cold-War hysteria still hung low, if somewhat less thick than in the 50's, over most of middle-America. But Alan Arkin's comic franticness in this tale about a small New England coastal village thrown into a frenzy when a Russian ship docks in its harbor and the Reds start mixing with the town-folk should still be good for some belly-laughs...
They practiced on polyturf, they played on polyturf. The field hockey team played late Friday night, the soccer team early Saturday morning. On both occasions, it was cold, too cold to be outside playing games. But the weather didn't matter, because they didn't score...
...making over $70,000 a year, owning four houses at one time plus a $30,000 ketch named the Snark.* Worse, as a Darwinian, London got his theories of evolution all mixed up with his notions of Nordic supremacy. The white man, he insisted, could stand the cold better than the Indian could, and in the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight of 1910 he rooted for Jeffries to "wipe the golden smile off the nigger's face...