Word: frontality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make a frontal assault on the temple of cliches." Unfortunately, Brando decided to fight cliche with cliche. After all the creative contortions and esthetic argy-bargy, One-Eyed Jacks turns out to be just a big, slick, commercial horse opera. The film, to be sure, is meticulously produced, directed, acted and "dited, and it is often startlingly beautiful to see-there is a sequence, photographed in Death Valley, that rivals in pure malign geology the finest frames of Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder over Mexico. Nevertheless, many spectators will wish that a little less of the beauty had been created...
...Claiborne deBorda Pell (TIME, Oct. 10) upset the campaign plans of Raoul Archambault Jr., who thought he would be running against one of two old-line Democrats: former Governor Dennis Roberts or former U.S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Archambault, a conservative's conservative, has shifted to a frontal assault on Democratic spending. A strong Democratic trend, a big Catholic vote and the proximity of New Englander Kennedy should put Pell over...
Last week the Supreme Court unanimously upheld their refusal. The licensing statutes, ruled the court, are as unconstitutional as the Alabama membership-list-law requirement struck down in 1958. Freedom of association, said Justice Potter Stewart for the court, is protected "not only against heavy-handed frontal attack, but also from being stifled by more subtle governmental interference...
...Last fortnight the word leaked out that George Belknap, the Democratic National Committee's director of voter analysis, had issued a secret party warning against "reckless schemes which could make Nixon a martyr and our campaign a smear ... A frontal attack on Nixon's character . . . would almost certainly lose votes...