Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films were among the few made there that dealt, on a large scale, with important contemporary subject matter: racial strife, American "success", the misfit problems of war veterans and motorcycle gangs. To make them, Kramer had to fight--and then compromise. He hoped to film the T.V. play, Judgment at Nuremberg, so he filled his cast with Names and touted the project to United Artists as its year's Grand Hotel...
...until it drains everyone who hears it--both musicians and audience. The story is High Noonish but their rendition is so powerful and tense that it makes you alternately sweat and shiver. Since the song is overwhelming in concert. I'm not sure that my judgment is objective--the Dead sound system, the crowd, and the visual presence of the New Riders are all missing from the album. Despite this, for those who have seen them or have vivid imaginations, this song is surely the best...
...week as "President Nixon's hired gunslinger." Herbert Packer of Stanford observed that Rehnquist had done "a prominent job in taking a hard, repressive line." The former N.A.A.C.P. president for the Phoenix area, the Rev. George Brooks, declared that the nominee's views "would preclude him from giving fair judgment" in civil rights cases. "Rehnquist represents the intellectual heart of the right wing in Washington," adds John P. Frank, an attorney who has written a study of the Supreme Court. "He will be able to translate the political philosophy of Goldwater into sophisticated legalisms...
...week's end the dealers were beginning to act a little sheepish about the whole affair. One of their colleagues, Chevrolet Dealer Lyman Slack, called the boycott "as poor a display of business judgment as I've seen in many a year...
...better one. Soames (Richard Kiley) is a minor minor poet pickled in absinthe who harbors a paranoiac conviction: people who ignore his slim volumes, The Ultimate Nil and Fungoids, are turning their backs on a late 19th century Milton. He desperately yearns to know posterity's judgment and makes a pact with the devil to spend a few hours 100 years hence in the library of the British Museum. There he finds that the brief and only mention of the name Enoch Soames is in a short story by Max Beerbohm...