Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what are these men really teaching him? They teach him their own brand of stealing, yet now it's the illicit fun of male camaraderie--teaching him to drink, to swear, to rent women. The movie sees that these lessons are the lessons of the adolescent male, being fourteen and yelling "fuck" at the top of your lungs, glorying at the mysterious defiance of it. This is all the older men have to teach. For all their tatoos, the Navy has them in a state of arrested development. They've been to Vietnam but they've children, lost...
McCarthy helped end the career of the Wisconsin Senator. Fourteen years later, St. Clair represented Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin during his trial in Boston for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion. More recently, he represented the Boston school committee in its lengthy attempt to avoid desegregation of the city's public schools. Explains St. Clair: "My politics have nothing to do with my professional representation...
...Fourteen months ago, Derwinski's blue-and white-collar district just southwest of Chicago went 71% for Nixon. Now the President is an embarrassment, a subject to be avoided. Watergate is also little discussed in places like Hickory Hills and Westchester, but the scandal has left its mark; voters are deeply cynical about what is going on in Washington. "People want to believe the worst about their leaders," said Derwinski. "They're looking for evil. They have chips on their shoulders." Indeed, the first question that Derwinski got at a Kiwanis meeting in Hillside was: "Is the energy...
...breads that she bought from one of the two tiny stores and that Isac and his brother, bakers and sons of a baker, made one morning. Dona Rosa tells you of her fifteen-year-old son who went to live with an aunt in another town and got a fourteen-year-old girl pregnant because "he had to sleep in the same room with her." They married and separated. "Divorce is too expensive...Children are a heavy burden. Each one brings fresh trouble. And each year there's another one. I've had thirteen." Dona Rosa is 43 and pregnant...
...Merritt portrays Nathan with an appropriate and consistent accent, and possesses a good sense of timing. There are several fine comic moments between Nathan and his fiancee of fourteen years, Miss Adelaide (Joann Beckson). Miss Beckson is outstanding, bringing to the role all of the necessary chintziness and gum-cracking, charm, coupled with a comic flair and a powerful voice. Her rendition of "Adelaide's Lament" is delightful, as is her duet with Nathan...