Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continue to re-educate us all the time and to act on that education. Sometimes that meant playing in the dullest upstate New York communities in the world and at other times doing things that I suppose arenot supposed to be done like being arrested at a draft resistance demonstration, although that's unpleasant...
...Police arrested 169 anti-war demonstrators at three Newton draft boards yesterday, charging them with disorderly conduct...
Federal law makes non-possession of a draft card punishable by five years in prison and or a $10,000 fine. But recent comments by government officials suggest that prosecution is unlikely...
...dialogue is merely specious; it is the attitudes that are openly corrupt. The film's war protester is Junkie Nick Filbert (Robert F. Lyons). To avoid the draft he woos a black woman with a large family, tries to flee to Canada, and attempts to convince an Army examiner that he is a raving queer. When none of the dodges work, he enlists in the Marines and becomes more gung-ho than John Wayne, only to slip back to his spaced-out civilian soul when he is pronounced psychologically unfit. The only implication left is that antiwar demonstrators...
Greetings, it may be recalled, was a freaky little low-budget comedy about college kids, the draft and politics that enjoyed some success a season or so ago. Much of it shot wide of the mark, but a few scenes (notably a satire on assassination investigators) hit close enough for Writer-Director Brian De Palma and Producer Charles Hirsch to be called "promising," and to get them a major distributor's financing for a sequel. Hi, Mom/!is the uneven result...