Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiting in Line. By suggesting a plan that would end such bounties, Nixon angered no one more than his fellow Republicans in Congress. G.O.P. House Leader Gerald Ford told Nixon: "Our people have been waiting for eight years to get in front of the line on postal patronage. And they are bitter that a Republican White House wants to turn off the spigot before they have even had a drink...
Bradley rarely strayed from his sober discussions of Yorty's past performance and the city's future prospects. He tried to deflect the attacks on him by telling well-dressed, middle-class audiences: "Funny, you don't look like black militants and white radicals." The line was no match for the Yorty advertisement showing a rather menacing picture of Bradley and asking the question: "Will your family be safe?" In white suburban neighborhoods, a new paste-up slogan appeared: AMERICA -LOVE IT OR LEAVE...
...course there are a few quibbles. The songs repeat their best lines ("You always used to be a virgin/ But it's so hard to tell these days") too often. A few scenes (a slap, a mugging) seem contrived. But the film is so well put together that these are at worst minor hitches, and at best strange contributions. Its shortness gives every excess, every idiosyncracy, a function in character establishment. The excessive repetition of line and gesture, for example, makes the characters look a little silly: it balances their very romantic notions and intense self-attention. Humor like this...
What came next was lines a block long. Curious (Yellow) picked up enough long green to gross $86,704 in its first week. What also came next was bomb threats and scalpers who sold $2.50 tickets for $10. The least predictable assault came from the Black Mothers for Liberty, a militant group who objected to the film's reference to Martin Luther King. Mayor James Tate capped the controversy by knocking the audience. "Many of the people who are standing in line," he fumed, "are degenerates." Actually, some are Pinkerton men scanning the ID cards of 17-year-olds...
Under present circumstances it is impossible to establish guidelines to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable political conduct within the university in a way that will appear just and equitable to the interested parties. The significant dividing line is not between faculty and students. Instead, the situation is one where those opposed to the war, and now even more opposed to those aspects of American society they hold responsible for the war, feel a moral compulsion to act in ways that others regard as merely criminal. Faculty and students fall on both sides of this moral and political dividing line, though...