Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True Grit is a particularly obnoxious piece of hack-work about the attempt of a fourteen-year-old girl (Kim Darby) to take revenge upon "a piece of white trash" for the murder of her father. To accomplish this she buys the services of a murderous U.S. marshal (John Wayne) and is forced to accept those of a young Texas Ranger (Glenn Campbell) who has offered the marshal a some what better for the same...
...Dresden-doll beauty and easy grace as she moved through a schedule that might have daunted a seasoned diplomat: tea with the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a spate of cocktail parties, and a trip to Wimbledon for the tennis quarterfinals-not to mention the investiture. Even her father's erstwhile opponent Hubert Humphrey was smitten. Humphrey greeted Tricia at a cocktail party with a hug and a kiss and said: "She is a little doll." Meanwhile, back home, the President's other daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, was star of her own show. Five days a week...
...June won a decision reversing the Massachusetts Racing Commission's ban on children at the track. "I may not know much about horses," said Veeck, "but I do know that we've got to get the young ones in to develop new players." Besides, says Veeck, the father of nine: "Why shouldn't kids be able to see what their...
...were most U.S. Negroes of the period. Born in 1859, the son of an African Methodist minister, the artist was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school. He became entranced with painting at the age of twelve when he saw a landscapist at work during an outing with his father in Fairmount Park...
...circus takes Lola backstage to her dressing room, a cage behind which pass actors staging her childhood. The camera follows them back and forth, passing in the middle of each are the sick, static Lola, and provoking a second flashback. In it Lola, a child still mourning her father's death, accompanies her mother aboard ship only to discover her affair with an officer. The sweeping camera movements which follow this child through the ship and express her curiosity and longing, ironically stress the objects and walls that confine her movement through the cramped lower deck. But complete imprisonment...