Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEY started off well enough. Led by Jeannette Rankin, a give-'em-hell Montana suffragette, women cracked the congressional sex barrier in 1916, four years before they won the right to vote. Since then, things have slowed down a bit. In the last half-century, only 75 women have been elect ed or appointed to seats on Capitol Hill...
...parried the inevitable inquiries about the U.S. air support with an exercise in semantics. The U.S. pilots were not providing "air support" to the Cambodians, Laird said. They were only "interdicting" supplies headed for South Viet Nam. But in a private conversation, an Air Force officer was more direct. "Hell," he said, "if you see one V.C. carrying a bag of rice or some ammunition, that calls for interdiction no matter how close he is standing to Cambodian troops...
...dialogue is wickedly original and his vision manages to combine the commonplace and the diabolic. It is as if by loosening a floorboard one could look down at flames. No author could demand a more empathetic director than Douglas Hickox, who understands the Ortonic core: the road to hell is paved with good inventions. The whole cast performs with ease; the kinkier the farce, the straighter their faces. Their achievement is that most difficult feat: a funny murder made murderously funny...
...campus reform, ecology, withdrawal from Viet Nam. But many have also been stunningly naive about drugs, the dangers of violence, the values of work and excellence. "It's fun to be responsive to our kids," says Winship. "They can teach us something?but so can we teach them a hell...
...persuading Stanford to create a coed dormitory. "The kids were more orderly and serious about their studies, so I've changed my mind." Even so, Harte is still cool about some of Chris's other passions, such as the film Easy Rider. "I thought it was just corny as hell," he says. As for Woodstock: "If you don't dig that music ?and I don't?it's a long three hours, I can tell...