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Word: frontality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The $6,000,000 Method | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE FOR THE SENATE: BATTLE FOR THE SENATE | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Names Aren't Necessary | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Poetry & Potshots | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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