Word: gutsier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Others echo those sentiments in gutsier language. Says Naomi Chambers, a Detroit social worker, who is black: "Now that some black people have cars, dresses and shoes, there is jealousy. Jealousy can make me hate you and take what you have." Indeed, the blacks who looted during the New York blackout were totally nondiscriminatory, emptying out stores owned by blacks and whites alike. There is a strong feeling among social experts and politicians, both black and white, that much the same rampage could have struck any U.S. city in similar circumstances?and that next time it will be worse...
More and more, Disney is setting its animators to work on gutsier movies that seize audiences instead of rocking them to sleep. One feature in the storyboard stage, The Hero from Otherwhere, is about two schoolboys who find themselves on a strange planet whose black leader persuades them to help destroy a wolf that has been ravaging the land. Another, Spacecraft One, about a mile-long spaceship in its search for life on other planets, is Disney's most elaborate sci-fi undertaking since 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Black Cauldron, still in the treatment-writing stages...
...Disney creations). Partly it is because the general audience has allowed itself to believe that the acceptable range for family fare is a narrow one, encompassing cuddly animals, bland costume pictures enlivened by painfully obvious song-and-dance numbers, and not much else The enthusiastic reception for the older, gutsier Disney features and animated shorts at the Lincoln Center retrospective ought to demonstrate that there is a hunger for something more...
Wrath of God. Seemed much gutsier than the Last 18 minutes of Duck, You Sucker, which has received far more acclaim. Its full of cliches, but the filmmakers are cynically conscious of them. Robert Mitchum is his typical boozing self, Ken Hutchinson is a fine hotheaded Irishman (where has he been hiding all these years?) Who are resist any Western set in Mexico and dealing with disaffected bandits and revolutionaries? Last day at the SAXON...
...generation ago, the problem for kids was sex," he says. "For this generation, it's violence." Indeed, the course seems to work particularly well in ghetto schools. Observes Dow: "Urban kids are much more attuned to questions of survival and not so frightened by some of the gutsier issues like death and reproduction." Few parents have objected to the course, even though it contains rather fundamental information on mating habits and some of the bloodiest film imaginable on the slaughtering of seals...