Word: legend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the complications of lymphoma, an illness she had kept secret for twelve years, she still ranked high on any list of the world's most admired women. The dumpy, doughty lady with her drab dresses, hair strewn with gray, and ever present cigarette was a figure of legend, and yet historians were divided on whether a cold-eyed examination of her record would ultimately justify the adulation she sought and gained...
...Brink's Job this legend is played for all it's worth--even more than it's worth. Director William Friedkin is so intent on showing the lovable underdogs who made it big that he bogs the tale down...
This glossing over isn't really a bad thing. The Brink's legend has entertained people for more than 20 years now, and there's no reason to try to do anything more than that with the movie. Friedkin was not even a bad choice for the man to do it. Although he has a reputation from The Exorcist and The French Connection as a calculating director who stops at nothing to wrench an audience's guts, he also has done this sort of nostalgic tribute before. The Night They Raided Minsky's was a rollicking adventure about vaudeville...
...Boston setting is faithfully captured, right down to the graffiti on the subways. But the film never takes off. At the end the robbers are led, one by one, past cheering crowds outside the courtroom. It's staged curtain call for the men who gave us the Brink's legend, but the movie doesn't do that legend justice. Like the thieves, Friedkin comes very close to pulling The Brink's Job off, but he bungles the timing...
...year ago that 12,000 feminist observers and 2,000 delegates concluded the National Women's Conference in Houston. Spirits and hopes were as high then as the pink and yellow balloons that sported the legend "We are everywhere," sent aloft by the lesbian caucus...