Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were obviously impressed. They tried to cover their envy by pretending to fall down in uncontrolled fits of laughter - but of course their act did not fool me." Someone in charge at the rodeo decided that the TIME correspondent's performance merited what he interprets as a high honor: renamed for the event, one of the orneriest brahma bulls around stormed into the arena after being loudly announced as "John Austin...
California Split is a rejoinder to the terse, glamorously tense world of The Cincinnati Kid, where the green felt is turned into a field of honor. It may be the first movie about gamblers that does not require any knowledge of the rules of a game. California Split is about compulsion, not betting, so the conventions are disregarded. There are no looming closeups of nervously shifting eyes, sweaty foreheads and shaky hands. Altman's premise is that getting hooked on gambling is the kind of emotional brinkmanship that is suicide by inches. This knowledge runs through California Split like...
...Crimson jock is not an athletic god or goddess. He was not admitted here merely to uphold the honor of the school on its playing fields, and he is not worshipped as such...
...true to form that this man who removed honor, dignity and outright cash from his office as President would deny his countrymen the peace of knowing that their great constitutional processes had worked justly. How tragic that a President of the United States had not the moral fiber to provide us with a moment of truth...
...adulthood and doubt, and the other an entirely self-contained gangster movie. They are irrelevant but great fun to read-a fragment of boozy conversation in a bar or a bedroom, a Polish picnic with a cast of thousands, a gangland execution in which the 400-lb. guest of honor is carted to a packinghouse and recycled as lunch meat...