Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THERE you have it: Riggs parrots stinging lines for fast money and vast attention, and makes himself a victim of his own villainous cause. He played darling devil's dare to the Women's Cause, and set them up as its defenders. It's like the sneaky fox who sets Mama lion raging in her lair. The anti-hero teases the hero into vengeance. And so Billy Jean King, like any American hero, could do what she had to do with justice on her side...
...full facts about Watergate?" The London Times has been consistent in defending Nixon, but last week, after Nixon's refusal, it editorialized: "When an accused man refuses to produce evidence which would decide the matter, the natural inference is that he does not do it because he dare not do it." Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak interviewed 93 blue-collar workers in Jersey City. N.J., a natural Nixon constituency, and found that by a margin of 2 to 1 they wanted the President to turn over the tapes to investigators...
...differences in their personalities showed up in the different games they played. Connors was a brassy player, a big hitter who missed a lot. He played a wild game, laying it all on the line on every shot, high on a devil's dare. Down 6-5 and receiving in the third set he would hit out and go for winners. And on match point he'd rush the net on a straight line and curve short to crosscourt an underspin backhand off his toes. He spiced up his play with plenty of theatrics on the side--yelling, swearing, screaming...
...Sense of Loss. More can be drawn from this comparison than Ophuls' obvious technical superiority, for Chase has not felt compelled to imitate the centralist humanist politics of his precursor. Using the same subject matter and the same documentary form as A Sense of Loss, No-Go is a dare, defying the definitions of documentary film-making. No-Go makes a bid for personal politics in documentation. This is a bid with some history, including the first Russian recipes for dogmatic cinema and the propaganda experiments of Nazi film makers. But it is a bid with a difference...
Politically, South Korea has turned into a dictatorship-and a tough-fisted one at that. Since November 1971, Park has systematically tightened his authoritarian control over the country, rewriting the constitution and emasculating the National Assembly. Today no factions of the populace dare defy him. Park insists that he needs greater power in order to orchestrate the delicate contacts he initiated with North Korea. One set of meetings, under the aegis of the Red Cross, aims at reuniting those Korean families separated by the divided country. A second team of negotiators discuss the possibilities of unifying the two nations...