Word: gutlessly
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...that would sell well would be one that exposed Nixon as a crook," says Vice President Donald Smith of Thomas Y. Crowell. Undaunted, Safire has demanded arbitration, as provided for in his contract with Morrow. "This," he says, "is the most pernicious kind of censorship - the censorship of the gutless...
...hank of hairstyling. No one seems to have the faintest idea of the way we really were, spiritually and intellectually, in a testing, fascinating time of transition. The ideas and issues, and above all the human passions that arose out of them, are missing from this slick, cold and gutless work...
...which is meant simply that this is one gutless movie. It plays its easiest hands. What is fatal to Live and Let Die is the assumption that the audience will accept it at face value; the movie demands not attention but acquiesence. There is not a spontaneous moment to be found; every act, down to each chase and tribal Caribbean voodoo ritual is choreographed. In fact, the real star is dancer Geoffrey Holder, whose grace and rich Jamaican voice lend spirit to the voodoo scenes, and authenticity elsewhere...
...ended and his imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into some very heavy slander: NBC's John Chancellor (who he seems to like) is a "dope-addled fascist bastard," Muskie is "a bonehead who steals his best lines from old Nixon speeches," and Hubert Humphrey is a "treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current." He doesn't pretend to cover the campaign thoroughly: he ignores some events and deals with others in detail, looking for an essence rather than a careful report...
...would like to put in a nomination for the twelve most gutless people in the United States: the jury that freed Angela Davis [June...