Word: conventionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Weatherman action was not merely a provocation-like the name-calling at the Chicago Democratic Convention or the Columbia sit-in-which, intentionally or not makes police react violently (and then the demonstrators react to the police).
MEDIUM COOL. Writer-Director Haskell Wexler challenges Hollywood both with stylistic innovations and by dwelling on contemporary politics (the Chicago convention). Add forcefully realistic performances by a cast of unknowns and the result is dynamite.
Despite dialogue from today's cocktail parties and themes from tomorrow's headlines, too many contemporary authors still make convention do the work of invention. They are rewriting the 19th century novel without meaning to. In The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles rewrites the 19th century...
Among those candidates, rock-music entrepreneur and Harvard Law graduate Steve Nelson did the best, gaining some 450 votes. Daniel F. Connelly, first chairman of the pro-rent-control Cambridge Housing Convention, got 253, while Cynthia F. Kline of the Cambridge Peace and Freedom Party polled 243.
THOSE PLEDGES of vengeance have produced a number of splinter candidates running on the rent control issue: they include Cynthia Kline (Peace and Freedom Party), Steve Nelson (a hip graduate of the Law School and the Kennedy School), Jessie Gill (a nurse's aide who has made a small career...