Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the "Repo" Men Your American Scene [Aug. 20] on the way the men who repossess cars work was extremely informative - probably too informative. How many people actually know how to break into a car? If I lived in Houston I wouldn't appreciate your letting everyone know when the best times are to "repo" or rip off cars. Stan W. Unruh Santa Ana, Calif...
...tapes are now being catalogued in a closely guarded Washington archive. Some Republicans fear that release of the tapes (not expected for at least two more years) could severely damage Connally, as could a few well-timed leaks. Although they must contain hours of pivotal talks between the two men, Connally says that there is "not a thing" on the tapes he is ashamed of and that he does not worry about their release...
John Connally's future was turned over to a federal jury of four men and eight women, ten of them black. Conviction would not only have destroyed his career but could have led to a sentence of up to four years in prison, a fine of as much as $20,000, plus possible further prosecution on perjury and conspiracy charges. After five hours of deliberation, the jurors declared the defendant not guilty. Jacobsen was sentenced to two years' probation...
Meetings with Remarkable Men is the hip '70s answer to Hollywood's oldtime biblical kitsch. Once Cecil B. DeMille re-created the glory days of Moses in glorious Technicolor; now Director Peter Brook is giving the same treatment to G.I. Gurdjieff (1877-1949), the philosopher whose Zen-like quest for spiritual truth has greatly influenced the modern human-potential movement. Though The Ten Commandments and Remarkable Men are theologically antithetical, they are cinematic first cousins. Both films suffer from an excess of piety, a shortage of humor and an infatuation with desert vistas. Still, DeMille's muscular...
...scenery, much of it shot in Afghanistan, is breathtaking, but the photography is routine. What is needed is some sort of theatricality-if not the forthright vulgarity of DeMille, then at least the romanticism of David Lean. With its incongruous mix of radical content and stodgy style, Remarkable Men is as doomed as an artistic collaboration between Werner Erhard and Lawrence Welk.-Frank Rich