Word: kennings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nice place just to visit," concluded Actor Jack Nicholson after two months on location at the state mental hospital in Salem, Ore. Nicholson has just completed filming One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a movie based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel and co-produced by The Streets of San Francisco Star Michael Douglas. The film stars Nicholson as an asylum inmate ("crazy as a fox") and features former Oregon Governor Tom McCall, Jazz Singer Seatman Crothers and some of the hospital's 600 inmates in its cast. Nicholson, who anticipated that his assignment would...
...place of Gallagher, coach Ken MacKenzie (so relation to the beleagured Bulldog goaltender) has a pair of top starters in Greg Daniels and Steve Niemczyk. Daniels is one of the more versatile players on the squad; he played third base last season and second the year before...
...Ken Russell's Tommy is the ultimate trip, the ultimate TV show. Its central metaphor is a deaf, dumb and blind person playing pinball--total sensory overload. Add some drugs (the audience), loud music in five-track Quintaphonic sound, and a camera that socks back and forth like an All rabbit punch, and you have an experiences so full that it cancels itself out. You buck and heave uncontrollably for two hours and waddle out of the theater, hoping that you'll smash the car into a wall on the way home or something because maybe that...
This has always been Ken Russell's way, and now he's found the perfect vehicle. Russell is fascinated by Tchaikovsky--he made The Music Lovers about him--and a critic of the composer could level similar charges at the director--he is vulgar, sloppy, with a wild imagination that colors furiously outside the lines. Which is why an actor like Jack Nicholson (who plays the doctor)--an actor of understatement and double meaning--looks totally out of place in Tommy. And a brash swaggerer like Oliver Reed (Tommy's stepfather) is quite at home...
...York sometimes seems to be run not so much by its elected officials as by the heads of its powerful civil service unions - men like Albert Shanker of the teachers union, Ken McFeeley of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and Victor Gotbaum of the municipal employees union. Over the years, those organizations have wrenched some extraordinary settlements from the city. A garbage collector's base pay after three years is $14,800. A policeman can retire at half pay after 20 years on the force, and probably collect more money in pension before he dies than he ever...