Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setters (Gloria Guinness, Lee Radziwill, Count and Countess Rudolfo Crespi, Mrs. John Barry Ryan III), the intellectuals (Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy, William Buckley), show-biz folk (Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Jerome Robbins), the writers (Edward Albee, Marianne Moore, Norman Mailer) and official Washington (Nicholas Katzenbach, John Sherman Cooper, Jacob Javits...
...Plainsman is a saddle-brained shoot-'em-up that borrows its title and most of its plot from Cecil B. DeMille's 1936 sagebrush saga that starred Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The present version seems innocently certain that trite makes right. The innocence has a certain charm, but the same can hardly be said of the clichés: the noble old Indian chief ("Cheyenne not want war!"), the nasty young brave ("Kill! Kill!"), the snotty regimental C.O. ("I'll give those filthy Indians a taste of cold steel!"), the cowardly villain ("Don't shoot...
...ever. The jokes are not the same as in the old vaudeville days, when they were based on the comic ignorance of the victim. The Rastus and Izzie jokes are gone. Today it is largely Jewish comedians who tell jokes about Jews, Negro comics about Negroes. Italian Comedian Pat Cooper (Pasquale Caputo) tells how his seven-year-old son asks what N.A.A.C.P. stands for. When he is told that it stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the boy wants to know whether the Italians have anything like it. "Sure," replies Cooper. "We have the Mothers...
...theory -- developed by junior staff counsel Arlen Specter -- speculated that the first bullet fired by Oswald passed through Kennedy's neck, then hit Governor Connally's back and exited through his chest, damaging his right wrist and left thigh successively. Epstein discloses that three Commission members -- Senators Russell and Cooper and Representative Boggs -- disbelieved Specter's hypothesis from the outset. But the Report papered over this difference of opinion with the assertion that the single-bullet theory "is not necessary to any essential findings...
...many people come to a good end in the pages of John O'Hara. Lissome Andrea Cooper departs through a hotel window. Jimmy Rhodes dies of a precoital heart attack. Charles Kinsmith slips on the ice and expires after a bout of total recall. John Wesley Evans discovers that he is going blind. General Dixon L. Hightower quietly turns transvestite. Even Jack Harrison aboard his luxury yacht is oppressed by the thought that his crew plans to kill...