Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COOL HAND LUKE. A cocky prisoner (Paul Newman) becomes a hero to his fellow inmates by repeatedly escaping and indomitably refusing to knuckle under to sadistic guards...
Still, victory was by no means certain, and as the debate began, an unlikely coalition of mayors, educators, labor leaders and big businessmen belatedly joined the battle. Scattered local programs began to close for lack of appropriations at the same time, and Congressmen who had been cool suddenly realized what the war on poverty meant back home. What Arizona Democrat Morris Udall called OEO's "hidden and silent" support started to surface...
With the aid of unemployed civil rights marchers and militant priests, Chavez, Alinsky & Co. ultimately won their strike. The revolutionary fever was slow to cool. As one union organizer put it afterward: "Success in our business means getting workers to middle-class status. The guy who carried a banner in 1966-well, in five years you're going to have a hard time getting him to a union meeting." It is that mood of inevitability that makes the anachronism of the Delano strike such compelling reading-and the strikers' success such a meaningful victory...
...naked girl situated vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. True, the state of the American detective picture is low, but not that low. Tony Rome is the most synthetically slick movie since Goldfinger, and affords a point-by-point lesson in how to write dialogue that is neither credible nor cool...
Director Stuart Rosenberg has chosen such a Florida chain gang as a microcosm of society for his first feature-length film, Cool Hand Luke. Into it, he plunks a hero, Lucas Jackson, doing two years' hard labor for "maliciously destroying municipal property while under the influence ... Knocking the heads off parking meters...