Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed solutions for the "sex problem" reflect this acuteness of mind: If the kid still believes in God, give him fire and brimstone. If he has absorbed the skepticism of the age, hand him a contraceptive, lock open his bedroom door, and read him the latest illegitimacy statistics...
Naples vanished into thin air. It was then that the street-wise Neapolitan children called scugnizzi (spinning tops) began their practice of buying and selling American G.I.s. One would pick up a soldier, promise him everything, and lead him into back streets. Another kid might buy the prospect for 300 lire, and he was thus passed from hand to hand until an older scugnizzo decided it was time to act. The G.I. was first made muscio (dead drunk), and once he had passed out, his clothes were literally sold off his back, beginning with shoes and ending with underwear. That...
Domino theory, deterrent theory. Henry Kissinger, what is truth? "You're fighting for me," I said. "I'm safe. I don't even know what's going on over there. When I say I respect you for it I mean it. Maybe I'm just a snotty college kid, but I mean...
Blackmer said he and his wife then went to talk to the policeman in the booth at the Square. "I said, 'can I talk to you,' and he said something like 'sure kid, start talking.' So he tried in his way to get the story out of me and I, being furious, tried to tell the story...
...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...