Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buddies from his World War II army service remember Powell as a fearful grind who studied over holidays and insisted on wearing tie, jacket and Sam Browne belt during the hottest days in India. He has grown more relaxed in middle age, having traded the atheism of his schoolboy idol, Nietzsche, for High Anglicanism. He has also exchanged his old spartan regimen for a warm family life with his wife and two children in a Regency-style house in Belgravia...
...high school, and the first few years of college. A blind man would not exactly be considered an eligible husband. "When I was in high school I used to get some tremendously imaginative excuses," Hal said. "I used them in a play I wrote. It was about a teenage idol who comes back to the school in disguise and has a terrible time trying to get dates. I made the girls use the excuses they had made up themselves, the ones they had used on me. The play was a great success...
...political content is lightweight (contrary to American popular opinion, Godard is anything but the idol of the French student revolutionaries) but it contrasts well with the other-facets of the film. For example, having established a motif of red paint on white walls, the multi-shaded greens of the train and apartment-house assassination sequences make the real world a complex support of Francis Jeanson's assertion that the students are drasticalliy oversimplifying. But the ending replaces conclusive directorial statement with irony, and signifies that Godard didn't know what kind of statement he wanted to make...
...other than defense. It affords armies an undisputed strength at home that makes them the continent's most effective political force. In the present circumstances, the vast majority of the officers feel that the armies need ail the strength they can get. Though Fidel Castro is not their idol, South American youths, who represent by far the fastest-growing segment of the population, are swinging ever more to the left. The officers, who mostly embody conservative, lower-middle-class views, hope to arrest that movement with tough government action. They are also thoroughly disgusted with civilian politicians, who have...
Divorced. Troy Donahue, 32, idol of the race-you-to-the-beach-house-for-a-Pepsi set (A Summer Place, Palm Springs Weekend); by Starlet Valerie Allen, 28, on grounds of mental cruelty (Val said he was always late to dinner); after two years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...