Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought rock music, but instead of The Ventures he has given us known songs by top rock artists. Attempting no structural integration between sound and image, his musical allusions are literary: Hoyt Axton's "The Pusher" after they make their connection. Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" as they hit the road on their bikes. Billy and Wyatt travel through these pulsating songs the way they do the countryside-the Band, the Byrds, Dylan, Jimi Hendrix et al are employed as a musical landscape, part of the backdrop of the youth subculture, but hardly integral or necessary. Hopper doesn...
Dunster House, perhaps hardest hit by the housing squeeze, reported a "barracks" type situation last week which was partially solved over the weekend by converting the women's lavatory into temporary dorms with six bunkbeds...
...rather than attack the worst, most destructive aspect of the drug trade, the President has decided to hit the most obvious target. He is aiming at fast results and higher popularity ratings. And he will probably get them...
...Egypt for having goaded its enemies. A State Department official grumbled, "When is Israel going to learn that it can not shoot its way to peace?" Other officials were irritated by the Israelis' conviction that the only way to persuade the Arabs to end their border violations was to hit them hard and often. The U.S. maintains that escalation by one side merely causes escalation by the other side; the Israelis retort by asking whether they are expected to turn the other cheek to guerrillas and artillery. The U.S. points out that security for Israel cannot be achieved simply...
...picture is less than the sum of its parts, many of which abound with vitality and cinematic invention. Scorsese choreographs his camera movements with an exhilarating, easy grace, and his dramatic use of rock 'n' roll (the film's title comes from a 1958 hit by the Genies) surpasses similar efforts in The Graduate and Easy Rider. Such fragments are bright enough to make Who's That Knocking-and more important, Martin Scorsese-worth watching...