Word: flick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clint Eastwood), the cop whose record of solved cases is equalled only by the list of brutality complaints filed against him. Ninety minutes, umpteen bodies and two or three episodes of debauchery later, the case is solved and the Bay City is safe once again. The particulars vary from flick to flick (the enemies were crooked cops in Magnum Force, young revolutionaries in The Enforcers), but the cliched plot remains the same...
With a conclusion more clearly condemning the waste and immortality of violence, The Enforcer might have been a significant film. But as it stands, with a moral you have to hallucinate to see, it becomes just another Clint Eastwood flick that you forget about the week after...
...about Glomar based partly on a talk with a former Glomar crew member named Joe Rodriguez (TIME, Dec. 6). As the first of Glomar's some 200 crewmen to speak, Rodriguez provided previously unknown touches about shipboard life (filet mignon was standard fare; Deep Throat was the favorite flick). Rodriguez's most significant hint, however, was that Glomar retrieved the entire Soviet sub. TIME checked out Rodriguez's suggestion with a number of Pentagon experts, who appeared to confirm it. They conceded that significant. and so far undisclosed portions of the sub-including nuclear missiles and torpedoes...
While they wait, three-year-old Galo plays with his wooden top. Most young peruanos have tops; resembling a large radish in shape and size, the top is thrown like a yo-yo with a flick of the wrist and spins upright even in an unpaved road...
...That's my screwdriver," he said. "Don't trim my screwdriver too short." He used his thumbnail to flick pages in his documents, and to tighten loose screws or make adjustments in his movie sound equipment or other appliances...