Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in these bloody times, the violence in Riot is rather extravagant: when cons are shot in the chest, gore gushes from their mouths, and throats are slit with slashing abandon. Director Buzz Kulik shot the film entirely in the Arizona State Prison, more for the sake of novelty than authenticity. He never once manages to capture the claustrophobic frustration of prison life. Although Riot aspires to be reformist social criticism, it is about as effective-and moving-as a convict chorus of Don't Fence...
Saturday, December 28 THE PIED PIPER OF ASTROWORLD (ABC, 11 a.m. to noon). Soupy Sales stars in a musical fable set in Houston's Astroworld amusement park with Lesley Gore, the Muppets and The First Edition...
Christmas is also the busy season for pickpockets and con men, for the bogus-check casher, the passer of counterfeit money and the fraudulent user of credit cards. According to Police Lieut. Allen Gore of New York City, all of these criminals are difficult to spot. "No one looks like a pickpocket or a shoplifter," says he. "There are no 'types.' " Gore advises that the best way for men to protect their money is to carry it in a shirt pocket or the inside pocket of a jacket; women should bury their wallets deep in their handbags after...
...later Premier Aleksei Kosygin received U.S. Senators Albert Gore and Claiborne Pell in Moscow and delivered a serious lecture on the dangers of either superpower attempting to jump ahead of the other in military strength. Both, he urged, should press on with negotiations for limiting anti-ballistic missiles and should seek ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Now that Czechoslovakia is safely in hand, it seems that the Kremlin is finding it easier to be prudent...
...columnist for L'Espresso who painted Onassis as "this grizzled satrap, with his liver-colored skin, thick hair, fleshy nose, the wide horsy grin, who buys an island and then has it removed from all the maps to prevent the landing of castaways." It was left to Novelist Gore Vidal, no admirer of the Kennedys, to deliver the week's most understated attack on the marriage: "I can only give you two words: Highly suitable...