Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp enough to project that she knows her own mind is her worst enemy--the battle goes on before our very eyes, the nervous twitch furious with itself. Fonda is the smartest screen actress we have now. This film was the first chance she got (or took, anyway) to drown the brainless sex-kitten, and her work here almost equals the wonder of Klute's Bree Daniels...
...business of reprisals. At least 500 people are known to have been executed so far, mostly Lugbaras. A few were killed by firing squads; others were shot in the knees, doused with gasoline, and set afire, or trussed up and tossed alive into Lake Victoria or the Nile to drown or be devoured by crocodiles...
After the general debacle on the golf course-won by Miami Dolphin Safety Dick Anderson, who finished near par -the athletes moved to the swimming pool. Boston Celtic Star John Havlicek immediately complained about his lane assignment next to Shotputter Brian Oldfield ('I'll drown in the tidal wave he creates"). After two laps, Oldfield surfaced gasping and decided to watch the close finish between defending Superstar Champion Bob Seagren, a pole vaulter by profession, and Kyle Rote Jr., son of the former New York Giants split end and a professional soccer star in his own right. Rote...
...considering that, at least as far as the kick line goes, the amount of talent involved is pitifully meager. Voight Kempson, the director, does a lot to compensate for this absence, by a lavish and effective use of mannerisms. The pit band seems more competent, though they tend to drown out some of the weaker voices onstage. The music Jonathan Scheffer and Barry Cohen dreamed up (stole?) for this show is the usual pastiche of everything from Motown to madrigal, with Harry Belafonte thrown in as some sort of transition...
...inflationary wage demands of union militants. "The election," he declared, "gives you, the people, the chance to say to the miners and to everyone else who wields similar power, 'Times are hard, we are all in the same boat, and if you sink us now, we will all drown...