Word: kite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blue laws* are relics of a time when church and state seemed inextricably intertwined. They survive through the same sort of legislative inertia that preserves the numerous city ordinances against kite flying-a pastime once feared as a sure horse-frightener...
Pulled down from the sky like a kite, Mastroianni wakes up in a cluttered bedroom at a sleazy spa. Circling sycophants plague him with questions about the movie, tiresome actresses whine that they cannot possibly go before the cameras, reporters pepper him with questions ("Are you a Communist? Are you against the A-bomb...
High-Flying Kite. Freeman has always been a hard driver. His father, proprietor of a men's clothing store in Minneapolis, went broke during the Depression, and when the time came for Orville to go to the University of Minnesota, he had to work his way. He made Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, played football, served on the debating team and got elected president of the university council. After graduation, he went to law school...
After military service, Freeman went back to law school-and politics. In his political career, Freeman tied himself to a high-flying kite named Hubert Humphrey. Both visceral liberals, the two met as undergraduates at Minnesota. Humphrey was seven years older-he was continuing an education interrupted by the Depression-but they became close friends. A far more talented politician than Freeman, Humphrey got elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 at the age of 35. He appointed Freeman to a couple of city jobs. In 1950, making his first try for public office, Freeman ran for state attorney general...
...next full-length film. Just released in Italy, Fellini's new "8½" begins with . . . what have we here? Soaring in the skies above Rome is not Christ but Marcello Mastroianni, all 154 pounds of him up there flying on a string like a great dihedral kite...