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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post-referendum speech, Papadopoulos made it plain he was in no hurry to surrender power. He reiterated the junta's favorite theme that the "goals of the revolution" must be carried out. By that, the former colonels mean that they want to purify Greek political life, immunizing the fiery-tempered Greeks against the vicious infighting that has marked their parliamentary history. Practically every Greek realizes that Papadopoulos & Co. have set themselves a next to impossible task, so there is no telling how many years the didactic colonels may persist in their mission...
...watch a movie." Otherwise, he divides his time between golf and "lady people." His handicap in the former is twelve; he scores high, too, with the latter. He prefers to entertain girl friends at his place, spurns all invitations to meet a lady person on her home grounds. "I mean, who needs it-the apartment with the bullfighter posters, and the door made into a coffee table, and the old Kelvinator with the ice trays...
...short, along with genuine wit, much of the humor is terrible/funny or just terrible/terrible. A lot of the material would have seemed dated in New Jersey burlesque during Prohibition. Can they really mean it-using this sort of stuff on TV in 1968? Laugh-In's producers know bad jokes when they use them. There is an element of camp and reverse sophistication in this, reminiscent of making a cult of Charlie Chan movies and Captain Marvel comic books. Besides, the outrageous jokes are thrown into the machinery of the show to create contrast and surprise, and to give...
...musical doubting and questioning does not mean that Ruggles lacks a ready supply of answers when he sits chatting with visitors in the living room or over the cracker barrel at the country store. Salty and profane as a whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this...
Does this mean anything? For one thing, guardianless orphans under 16 have been kicked in the pants by the "R" classification. The ratings don't help the Catholic Church much either. Every time the going was dull in the drama pages of the Times, the Catholics' own board of censors could go and announce a "C" (condemned for everybody) rating for some movie like Blow-Up or Rosemary's Baby. Those days may have passed forever...