Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carrillo might have helped these things along, but the screenwriters follow the "women should be seen and not heard" school of filmmaking. Perhaps she was hushed up lest her authentic accent draw attention to Gere's flat American tones, made all the more irritating by his self-consciously correct pronunciation throughout of the word "Paraguay...
...straight. I don't think that the expression has anything to do with saliva. It originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing-without dialect-is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of someone whose father had passed on-and the colored folks would say-"the very spi't an' image of his daddy...
...play tennis before 7:30 in the morning. Oh, well!-it is impossible to correct all the cockeyed stories. Moreover, it is obvious your slant is friendly, so I don't mind...
...tale of My Lai has only been told by a few Vietnamese survivors-all of them pro-V.C.-and half a dozen American veterans of the incident. Yet military men privately concede that stories of what happened at My Lai are essentially correct. If so, the incident ranks as the most serious atrocity yet attributed to American troops in a war already known for its savagery...
...since Kaufman extends his mythopoetic license to the limits in expanding the role of Yeager, whom he portrays as remaining a lonely flight-test purist at Edwards for the entire period covered by the film. This is historically inaccurate-he left the base in 1954-but it is emotionally correct. Kaufman wanted to do a movie about "a particular form of American heroism" and to ask the question "How does that elusive quality survive in the midst of the American circus, the chaos, public commotion, the panic, that all threaten to stamp it out?" The answer, of course, is that...