Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would that be fair? The TV networks might not think so, especially if Bartley's idea is to create a new agency that would really get down to the job of regulating them...
...taught us. Our first objective, obviously, must be to bring our troops home from Vietnam immediately. This is, of course, an issue of crucial importance to all Americans, and in fact to all the world, but the class of 1968 faces it with painful immediacy. I believe it is fair to say that our class, almost to a man, opposed in some way our government's policies in Asia. Many of us go further--more than a hundred members of the class have pledged that they will not serve in the armed forces while this war continues...
...itself is run by what has inevitably come to be called "the French Canadian Mafia." French-speaking ministers, long confined to portfolios with more prestige than power, now for the first time command important economic offices. Partly as a result of Trudeau's drive to give them a fair share of power, French-speaking intellectuals are beginning to turn their attention to Ottawa, rather than to Quebec City, and militant French Canadian separatists are becoming rebels with a less appealing cause...
What does it all add up to? Even were Graham alive, he would most probably not tell. He delighted in shrouding his life and art in mystery. Nor is the rediscovery of John Graham based on any reassessment of his artistic ability. He remains, at best, only a fair draftsman and a thoroughly pedestrian stylist. Nonetheless, his wild-eyed subjects possess considerable appeal for the public that has recently developed an interest in astrology, numerology and other forms of mysticism. Graham, who thought of himself as an eccentric loner, often said that his work was not intended to be beautiful...
...Sweet It Is!, nearly all the personnel came out of the tube. Director Jerry Paris is from the Dick Van Dyke show. The writers are out of the Danny Thomas factory. The star, James Garner, was once Maverick. Fair enough; talent has to break in somewhere. But this febrile farce betrays its videosyncrasies wherever it meanders. Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he cannot communicate with his hippie dippy son. When the boy decides to tour Europe, his meddle-class mother (Debbie Reynolds) decides to fill the generation gap by taking a house in France for the summer...