Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard University Health Services is growing -- and expanding out into the community. Officials at UHS hail this expansion as a great and progressive step. And in fact, for the community the new Harvard University Group Health Plan (HUGHP) is definitely a radical new way of getting almost total health care in a package plan...
...more than tough. The face shows weathered tension burying pure fear. You see him first kneeling at the altar, dwarfed in the dizzying bowels of the Catholic church. It is after confession, and Charlie is clealy no ordinary sinner, looking grimly pained as he repeats his dozen Hail Marys. The interior monologue begins: "They're just words, it's all bullshit, it's not for me," etc. The cliches are telling--in reality he is tyrannized by the church, tormented by guilt, terrified of hell. He thinks he's fighting back, but his gestures are meaningless...
SUNDAY: Love Story. 1970. Again? Yes. Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, she dies, he isn't sorry, etc. Hail, Veritas. CH. 5. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...HAIL! TO THE CHIEF Directed by FRED LEVINSON Screenplay by LARRY SPIEGEL and PHIL DUSENBERRY...
...satiric thriller about presidential conniving and conspiracy in Washington? Two years ago, when Hail! to the Chief was made, no distributor would touch it; the movie seemed to fall somewhere between poor taste and treason. Now, post-Watergate, it has had no trouble finding a distributor; it seems to fall somewhere between poor taste and topicality. Moral: for some moviemakers, it is safer to be accused of quickie exploitation than of insight or prophecy...