Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Damn! Leave Peanuts alone...
...opinion polls, which have suggested apathy and ignorance about Viet Nam, Congressman after Congressman returned to Washington after the Christmas holidays convinced that the voters are profoundly concerned. When Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week briefed the House Foreign Affairs Committee, one member interrupted him: "You'd damn well better find a solution to this in the next two years, because that is about all the time the American public is going to give...
...coalition" with which King hopes to work includes a hefty measure of what his more radical adversaries within the movement damn as "establishment groups": The churches, the unions, the NAACP, the Liberal Democrats. In fact, the coalition is so broad that it can seek gradual reform, but hardly social revolution. If the reforms come thick and fast enough, King may hold most of the Negro leaders in line behind him. But the signs aren't hopeful. Revolutions have a momentum of their own, and a way of passing old leaders...
...Heineman really doesn't give a damn whether the whole town of Fort Knox is gassed to death, or whether Goldfinger does finally break the bank, then let him wrap himself in cellophane beside a sunny window, insert a thermometer in his mouth, and play with his Rhodes Scholarship, 007 is no parody of more movies, but of the very stuff that dreams are made of. And as long as Bond is flinging electric lights into bathtubs containing villains about to plug him with his own Smith & Wesson, as long as he's kneeing Chigro henchmen in the groin...
...grandiose consumer toys, an array of pseudoscientific gear, and stylish spas or hideouts are only sofascinating. By the end, no one really gives a damn whether the whole town of Fort Knox is gassed to death or whether Goldfinger does finally break the bank. Will the scene be more spectacular than the gilded ladies, golden Rolls-Royces, and pernicious laser rays which preceded it? Since the answer is no, the movie ends with an anti-climatic thud (or, rather, rustle; Bond and girl assume their usual, final positions beneath a parachute...