Word: crows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JEREMIAH JOHNSON. "The real Jeremiah Johnson," Screenwriter Edward Anhlat has explained, "killed 247 Crow Indians and then ate their livers, and that's not nice." The film that was extracted, with considerable timidity and falsification, from the Johnson saga is exactly that-nice. Its niceness is both part of its charm and its undoing...
Bickering. At present the BIA is ill-equipped to handle such challenges. Apparently fed up with the bureau's internal bickering, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton last week fired Commissioner Louis Bruce, Deputy Commissioner John Crow and Harrison Loesch, Assistant Secretary for Public Land Management. As an interim measure, Morton named an assistant, Richard Bodman, to take command...
...high-up, as in a ship's crow's nest...
Hobson, though, takes greater pride in his successful campaign to change downtown racial practices. "When I started out with picket lines in 1960," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Hathaway, "a black clerk was as rare as a white crow. Now they are all over the place." He pressured such giants as Safeway Stores and A&P into hiring blacks for the first time. When one leading auto dealer hired a black salesman, Hobson thanked the company by buying his first Ford there...
...Hoss is shivering inside his black leather. Unbound by the system or the code, "gypsy" mavericks are working the territory. In Act II, Hoss is challenged by a gypsy named Crow (Mark Metcalf). They engage in a sacrificial stomping dance entangled in electric cords and thrust microphones. It is part musical cutting session, part machine-gun duel of far-out words, and it is as chillingly old as a tribal rite in which the young warrior snatches control from the aging patriarch. The language varies between wild incomprehensibility and allusive symbolism. Crow, for instance, calls Hoss, "Feathers," meaning horse feathers...