Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...European view of the American Indian has generally been patronizing, to say the least. Pope's classic dig helped fix the image of a savage. A noble version was conceived by the 19th century romantics, but an ignoble one was later imported from Hollywood. Museums on both sides of the Atlantic have not helped much, tending to confine their Indian exhibits to ethnographic ghettos dominated by braves and their war bonnets. However, Sacred Circles, a stunning show of Indian art sponsored by Britain's Arts Council and private American donors as a U.S. Bicentennial event at London...
Sure, the Big Green did get in a few kicks, winning the majority of freshman and junior varsity events, the soccer game and the cross-country meet (just about everything, in fact, except the field hockey game; you've gotta dig that undefeated Radcliffe field hockey team...
...rain and the curtain come down, we are left to ask, "So what?" It's sentimental, but why dig up the Minutemen from obscurity? Because the parallel drawn between John Sterge and Charlie Finaly is not so absurd. The Minutemen demise provides a textbook example of what may be the Appomattox of professional sports...
...accompanied Schlesinger on his tour, "the trip was an opportunity to demonstrate their ultimate weapon: the Chinese people. They did it at every turn, lining the roadsides with militia guards in Inner Mongolia and showing Schlesinger vast tunnel networks built on Chairman Mao's command to 'Dig tunnels deeply, store grain and never seek hegemony. At least for the time being, the Chairman's spirit is still in command...
...heroes never convincingly falter in their convictions. They are simply not alive, and it is hard to care much what happens to them. Even the cleverly chosen New York locations somehow seem contrived. There is, in the end, something held back about The Front, some strange refusal to really dig into and turn over very rich historical and psychological soil. The result is a film unworthy of its excellent intentions...