Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLANET OF THE APES. This screen version of Pierre Boulle's abrasive science-fiction fantasy has replaced Swiftian satire with self-parody; even so, $1,000,000 worth of ape makeup and costumes covers a lot of blemishes...
...McCarthy himself acknowledged to the exuberant crowd gathered at his election headquarters, the Senator owes a lot to the thousands of dedicated campaign workers--mostly students--who trooped into the Granite State ("I've had the most intelligent volunteers in American history--no, in the history of the world," McCarthy hyperbolized on election night...
...Institute's green fields. There one must be careful of the Government, of one's reputation--and Kaysen sticks to his position as an economist. From an economic standpoint, he says, the country can easily support the war. Although to do so, he amends, it must "take a lot of resources which could much better be used on other things. The situation looks in a very critical shape...
...other all night in a manner not unlike the Tyrones in Long Day's Journey into Night. Lady Gregory's penchant for folk dialect and fairly elaborate imagery prevent the encounters from being quite so acerbic, and give the characters a sort of distance. There's not an awful lot you can do with only two or three characters on stage, and director John Pym settles for movement that is simple and unobtrusive...
...scrapes with sex. The best article is by Edward Bastian, a graduate in political science from the University of Iowa, who spent a month in Viet Nam and captures the grime of the war. "You're always soaked, always miserable," he writes, describing the infantryman's lot, plodding through mud and swamps. "Your boots stink and your socks rot-and your feet rot if you aren't careful." Which goes to prove that there's more to say about one rotten sock in Viet Nam than a whole discotheque full of electric dresses...