Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator McGovern is wind-blown all right. Across the autumn-gold corn stalks of a roadside field in this rural county, a billboard proclaims: "McGOVERN--A COURAGEOUS PRAIRIE STATESMAN." And there is McGovern, hair tousled, walking into the wind...
...track and field events in Mexico City. But even that kind of performance is likely to pale next to the anticipated exploits of U.S. swimmers. Led by Debbie Meyer, a snub-nosed 16-year-old from Sacramento, Calif., who could become the first swimmer to win three gold medals in individual events in one Olympics, U.S. aquanauts are expected to win 23 out of 29 races and collect as many as 55 out of 87 medals-gold, silver and bronze. They may need an armored car to get their loot back across the border...
...Uncle Tom, Young can barely stand the sight of his erstwhile oppressor. Since straight-shooting hands are hard to find, he takes Murray on as a temporary sidekick. Whitey does not cotton to the setup either, and the two bristle at each other even as they foil a gold heist. A mutually respectful, but hostile, black-white relationship is a departure for TV "realism." Whether it can be made as durable as the warm, three-year-long buddyship of I Spy's Bill Cosby and Robert Gulp is questionable...
Insistently, Director Jack Gold reflects the quiet terror of military routine in claustrophobic closeups. The soldiers sprawl in their bunks, prickling the silence with wisecracks and gibes to pass the time. When a sergeant enters, the guards are suddenly heel-clicking marionettes, wooden parodies of soldiers, drained of emotion as they parrot back orders. The camera lingers on the faces of Evans and O'Rourke, the Mutt and Jeff of the absurd, one fearful, the other flashing madness from bright blue eyes...
...four years after he was judged an "immortal" worthy of being seated by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Joāo Guimarāes Rosa donned the official gold-braided uniform and formally took his chair. Publicly, he explained the delay by saying he had been too busy to write his acceptance speech. Privately, he feared that becoming an "immortal" was an unnecessary challenge to his own mortality. Seventy-two hours after the ceremony, his seven-year-old niece went into his study to offer him some popcorn and found him dead of a heart attack...