Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gore Vidal, Allen Drury and Tom Wicker (the novelist) share with Richard Nixon a common flaw: all have failed to make our capital city believable. One explanation of why Washington fiction is so lame may be that while the stages and settings are of heroic size and the plots involve the fate of nations, the figures shouting speeches and shaking swords seem absurdly tiny...
FRIDAY: Tora! Tora! Tora! I never saw this $25 million production, but I sure was unimpressed with the preview clips in which the Japs bomb the living shit out of our boys at Pearl Harbor. I imagine there's lots of action and maybe even some blood and gore to sustain the kind of dull plotless romance one generally finds in war movies (and at Harvard). This movie bombed at the box-office and crippled traditional Hollywood in the same way the Japs scuttled the Pacific Fleet. 8:30 on Channel...
Murder and mayhem sell papers to anyone, it was thought, but blacks in particular fall for the lure of violence. And as Chicago's four dailies began to battle in earnest over the city's burgeoning black population in the early 1960s, the gore they featured increased...
...PAPER, The Chicago Sun-Times, for some inexplicable reason deployed an alternate strategy. The Sun-Times produced its share of gore, but is also started to seriously report on affairs in the black community. The Sun-Times covered speeches by black leaders; it did some features on ghetto problems--in short, it began to accord the black community its rightful place in local affairs. And The Sun-Times jumped into a commanding lead in the circulation war in the ghetto...