Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camps, V.C. Tower proved as palatable as an enemy prison can reasonably be expected to be. Dodson and Eckes ate their meals (rice laced with snails, caterpillars or snake meat) with the camp director and their guards, played cards and sometimes sang (a favorite tune: The Animals' We Gotta Get out of This Place). Attempts were made to interrogate them, but when they refused to answer, the V.C. did not press them further. A specialist in acupuncture stuck pins in their scalps by way of a medical examination, and a political cadre dropped in to try to work...
Girl-Getters would be a better movie if Scenarist Peter Draper had put fewer words into his characters' mouths. Occasionally, they seem to be speaking less for themselves than for a troubled generation in toto. But Director Michael Winner masks the deficiency, coolly catching the feverish, gotta-keep-busy restlessness of youth on the go. Wherever the action is, from ballroom to boardwalk to a beachside spree in which a bride-and-groom are burned in effigy. Winner gives a commanding end-of-summer air to every moment...
...five-man English singing group will give a two-hour concert on May 6 to open this year's Freshman Jubilee Weekend. The long-haired "Animals" are well-known for such recordings as House of The Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Outta This Place and Bo Diddley...
...precise mock-mimicry of the discotheque set. Fosse's dances always say something about the society that breeds them, and his jazz-oriented "Rhythm of Life" church number is a wry comment on religious hipsteria. The score is useful rather than enchanting, but one song, There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This, threatens to become the mood music of everyone who ever hated...
...Yalie Daily doesn't print at all during exams. They even lock up the building. Call them up, you get to talk to the janitor. We're tougher than that, But we gotta study sometime. We take courses same as you guys, even if you never see us at lecture. So we only publish three days a week. Tomorrow's not one of them...