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Robbing trains and stirring up trouble, he is known as Kid Blue. But when he gets fed up with a bandit's life, he uses his proper name, Bickford Waner. Bickford (Dennis Hopper) leaves his outlaw ways behind him and heads down the trail to Dime Box, Texas, where he puts up at the boardinghouse and lands a job sweeping out the barbershop. Polishing shoes or eating supper with the other boarders, though, Bickford just seems to stir people up. "You got no respect, boy," a shoe salesman (Ralph Waite) informs him one evening. "What am I supposed...
...deliberate echoes here of Brando's classic challenge in The Wild One. "What are you rebelling against?" one harried adult asked him, and Brando just shrugged and said, "Whatya got?" What is different in Kid Blue is the tone. Brando's cyclist was a threat, an aggressor; Hopper's outlaw is a puzzled, slightly paranoid victim. Trying to go straight and live right, he only makes the citizens more suspicious. They are resentful in some vague way, and the sheriff, Mean John ("But only my friends can call me that") Simpson, is disbelieving. "I seen boys like...
...that was not enough, The Crimson felt obliged also to give The Echo's staff a lesson in good Calvinist theology as well: "No college paper can achieve success without hard work on the part of all connected with it. To drop a miscellaneous assortment of items into a hopper can hardly be called editing a paper...
...major legislative issues they will face. The course's founder, Mark Talisman, 32, for ten years an assistant to Ohio Congressman Charles A. Vanik, spent one nonstop 4½-hr. class session on such not-so-trivial basics as where to turn in a proposed bill (in the "hopper" at the side of the Speaker's platform), who will assign it to a committee (the parliamentarian), who controls the parliamentarian (the Speaker) and what to do if both the parliamentarian and the Speaker refuse to help get it to the committee where it will have the best chance...
THURSDAY: Robert Without a Cause, James Dean created an unforgettable image for a whole generation in this 1955 teenage melodrama. Cast includes Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper, CH, 56, 8 p.m. Color, 2 hrs, The African Queen, Bogart and Hepburn in the 1951 lady and the tramp classic. Directed by John Huston and scripted by James Agee. A joy to watch. CH. 7, 9 p.m. Color...