Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least where the issues were concerned. For their part, both candidates have protested that there were marked differences between them. When they agreed to an hour-long televised debate, the nation looked forward to a spirited exchange of their divergent views. Anticlimactically, last week's spectacular, displacing the Hollywood Palace revue on the ABC network, was no showdown, and it wasn't even good show biz. It was downright dull. Nearly two-thirds of the way through the confrontation, Moderator Frank Reynolds declared plaintively: "Well, there don't seem to be very many differences between Lyou...
...candy-laden children in action in too many aisles, wondering what evil lurks in the hearts of men who throw a sign saying ARS GRATIA ARTIS in front of a motorpsycho surfing shocker, we can grasp something of the apathy and despair that has permeated every aspect of Hollywood film production...
Richard Nixon's celebrity roster is also brief-but heterogeneously charming. Its stars include Ray Bolger, John Wayne, Bart Starr, Ginger Rogers, Joe Louis and Rudy Vallee, who adjudges Nixon "the most qualified man in this country, intellectually and emotionally." Oddly, none of Ronald Reagan's former Hollywood colleagues have yet agreed in public that the Governor should move from Sacramento to Washington. To date, the only Beautiful Person who has declared for Nelson Rockefeller is Happy...
...Holden comes to realize the cost of his merciless goading. As a mainstream tough-and-rumble military movie, The Devil's Brigade-which is based on actual events-offers few new sights or insights. After nearly three decades of World War II films, it is hardly surprising that Hollywood is beginning to suffer from combat fatigue...
...printed Critics Yvor Winters and R. P. Blackmur. In Santa Fe, Laughing Horse (1921-39) celebrated the Southwest through the writing of such contributors as Upton Sinclair and Sherwood Anderson. Not all of the contributors by any means became well known; many of talent gave up, or turned to Hollywood or alcohol. "Some of the people now forgotten," says Robert Lowell in an introduction to the series, "are almost as interesting as those that survived. They are the underpinnings of the house...