Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea. I don't want to be associated with that awful person Andy Warhol any more." But the underground film maker who christened Ingrid Superstar and Viva showed a depressing lack of originality when it came to picking a new name for himself. Warhol's choice: John Doe...
...Marlon Brando astride a Triumph in The Wild One, big bikes and those who ride them have been made into apocalyptic images of aggression and revolt -Greasy Rider on an iron horse with 74-cu.-in. lungs and ape-hanger bars, booming down the freeway to rape John Doe's daughter behind the white clapboard bank: swastikas, burnt rubber, crab lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse in movies; but if Trigger had been loaded with the sado-erotic symbolism that now, after dozens of exploitation...
...toughness of the times. Gary Cooper, the loner beating the system in Meet John Doe, Frank Capra's mystical belief in neighbors and small towns (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; It's a Wonderful Life)?these were symptoms of a national desire to leave complexities behind at the moviehouse door...
Conrad insinuates himself into the Ornstein family circle first by murdering a groom, then by revealing the Nazi obsessions of the stolid head butler. While sexually subduing both doe-eyed, effeminate Helmut and the Countess, Conrad seduces the unprepossessing daughter of a German magnate. The millionaire and his imbecilic wife want to buy a castle and instant social status. Conrad, of course, sees the connection between their ambitions and the Countess' wish to re-open her decayed ancestral fief, Helmut marries the heiress, though he and his bride aspire only to sexual bliss with Conrad. Conrad himself mercy awaits...
...half a dozen present and former Congressmen, including Long and Boggs, and cited 45 overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. Submitting it to the judge, they asked that it be made public. Their action precipitated a panic. Lawyers for Frenkil and others, claiming only to represent "John Doe, Peter Poe and Richard Roe, et al.," petitioned the court to prevent publication of the document, which they felt would damage their clients. In response, Federal District Judge Roszel Thornsen steered a cautious middle course. He suppressed the grand jury's presentment and released a watered-down summary...