Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since Dr. Strangelove, Director Robert Altman decided that nothing succeeds like excess. Often he is right. M.A.S.H. begins where other antiwar films end-after the shells have exploded. Only two shots are fired in the movie, and both come from a referee's starting gun during a hilariously corrupt intraservice football game. Instead, there are the results of bullets; men bleed on-camera in great arterial gushes. The wounded are flown in on helicopters and stain their sheets as they die silently. The film's two main characters retain their sanity the way men have always done...
...peace and anti-status quo? Is the hero the brave judge, who with painstaking efficiency works within the system to bring down the regime? Or is it that aide of Lambrakis who calls for the people to take to the streets and bring a violent end to a corrupt regime? All these are possible according to the audience. That Z is an exciting drama and that its point of view is confusing takes away from the political effect that the director apparently desired...
...enforcement officials have long maintained that the Mafia has extensive influence over officials at every level of government in New Jersey. The Mafiosi apparently feel that way too. In lengthy transcripts of bugged Mafia conversations made public last week, New Jersey hoodlums boasted of their power to control and corrupt public officials throughout the state, from the statehouse at Trenton to the smallest municipal police station...
...rock. However labeled, it is a turning back toward easy-rhythmed blues, folk songs, and the twangy, lonely lamentations known as country music. Country rock is also a symptom of a general cultural reaction to the most unsettling decade the U.S. has yet endured. The yen to escape the corrupt present by returning to the virtuous past ?real or imagined?has haunted Americans, never more' so than today. A nostalgic country twang resounds all up and down the pop charts. Glen Campbell and Johnny Cash, two singers once chained to the old country circuit, are now national figures with...