Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting is over, at least for the American G.I. Technically, U.S. troops are indeed in a "defensive" posture, as the Administration calls it, because their main job is to protect American facilities. But for a good number of the 139,000 G.I.s still in Viet Nam, that job means endless patrols out in the boondocks under conditions that look very much like...
...basis of these doubts appears more clearly. We Harvard men and women--indeed, all American students--despite the endless resources at our disposal, have been educated to respond to the social system passively or to participate only in support of traditional goals which, of course, results in much the same thing...
...with historical footnotes. Extracted from Robert K. Massie's bestseller, it seems to have started as an attempt to make what the boys back at the studio call "an intelligent epic." For Scenarist James Goldman (The Lion in Winter) and Director Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton), that apparently means endless vistas of gilded scenery, plus dreary dialogues about the future of Russia and the Czar's responsibility to his family and his increasingly obstreperous subjects...
Jayston and Janet Suzman, who plays Alexandra, are both highly professional but singularly unengaging actors. They are never able to fight through the emotional paralysis that cripples the film. Endless sequences are expended showing Alexandra wringing her royal hands over the fate of her hemophiliac son Alexis...
Trading on an endless round of football yarns, Karras is one of the most sought-after speakers on the jock banquet circuit. Last year his 80 appearances before everyone from "Boy Scouts to boozed-up slobs" earned him more than the $35,000 he made with the Lions (a salary that the team is contracted to pay him through the next season). "We ugly guys are taking over," he says. "If they would stop using those pretty quarterbacks in TV ads and get some of us lugs in, they'd sell more hair tonic. Most people are lugs." Advertisers...