Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Lean, a handful seem to be well on their way: ∙ ARTHUR PENN. A product of television and stage work, Penn successfully brought his Broadway hit, The Miracle Worker, to the screen. At first, he proved better at transferring than at creating. His early experiment, The Left-Handed Gun, starring a self-conscious Paul Newman as Billy the Kid, paid heavy homage to the Actors Studio. Mickey One was a sedulously Francophilic film with Warren Beatty in the unlikely role of Everyman. But both movies displayed a moral force and a growing understanding of the possibilities of film. With...
There were gripes, too, some of them scrawled angrily on the pledge cards mailed out by hopeful fund raisers. Many postage-paid envelopes came back containing news pictures of the gun-toting black students at Cornell-and no checks. The kind of alumni ire once generated by losing football teams is now created by winning rioters. One grad wrote anonymously in answer to a plea from Temple: "Let the sit-ins pay; they run things." This was doubly wounding to Temple, where a one-day sit-in had won nothing...
Tensions Within GaulIism. At that moment, artillery began to fire along the Seine, the reports reverberating in the Elysée. To the counterpoint of the 21-gun salute, President Pompidou made a brief inaugural address. Praising the man who only eleven months earlier had sacked him as Premier, Pompidou said: "General de Gaulle represented France with unprecedented eclat and authority. My duty is delineated by his example. I intend to fulfill it with the strictest respect for the constitution of the Fifth Republic and with the will to uphold the dignity of France...
...Russian Foreign Ministry immediately issued a countercharge, claiming that a Chinese shepherd had sauntered 400 yards into Soviet territory in order to distract border guards while Chinese troops slipped into Russia. When ordered to leave, said the Russians, the Chinese replied with a burst of submachine-gun fire. Moscow mentioned no casualties on either side...
...child within her grows, Ellen retreats to her own childhood, resurrecting the toys in the lodge attic. Seeking reassurance, the pair try the ritual of childhood games-Parcheesi, Chinese checkers-then break off even this relationship. Chris teaches Ellen to shoot. At last all they share is the gun, as if the final game were to be a game of kill. More and more, the birth they await seems a kind of impending death...