Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's demonstration in Boston will protest police brutality in Selma, and demand immediate federal intervention there. The civil rights groups want federal action to take two forms: protective measures for Selma's Negroes, and prompt arrests of Sheriff Jim Clark, and the director of Alabama's Department of Public Safety, Colonel Al Lingo...
...fine showings in this meet and its experience on the boards. Tom Sullivan, who won the mile last year in 4:11.8, is a defending champion for the Wildcats and is favored to retain his title against a field that includes Georgetown's Joe Lynch and Army's Jim Warner...
...this long, foolhardy movie version of the book, Writer-Director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry) introduces Jim (Peter O'Toole) as a rather winsome, late Victorian Walter Mitty. A grand kid, but accident-prone. On a giant split screen, Jim visualizes such wild exploits as saving his captain from buccaneers. And the audience is warned by this literalism that Writer Brooks in tends to steer through Conrad's prose with stopovers in all the wrong places...
...rest of the movie, filmed in Hong Kong and at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, offers picturesque backdrops as a substitute for the subtle erosion of character. After the Patna scandal, Jim works as a coolie and coal heaver. In the Malay Archipelago, he saves a boatload of burning explosives, ferries them upriver to help the natives of the fictional land of Patusan, who are fighting a tyrant general (Eli Wallach, aping Fu Manchu). Victorious, Jim settles down with a dusky girl (Daliah Lavi), then has to dispose of villains who plan to sack the village treasury...
...Lawrence of Arabia and Becket. Each time his manhood is tested, O'Toole's eyes fill with tears and a hand drifts to his throat as if to ward off a fainting spell. Everything he does looks intensely talented. But it hardly ever looks like Lord Jim...