Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steal a Million is tastefully directed and competently performed, but its glossy tone somehow brushes out any forward momentum. In a film that cries for wild hilarity and a heady spirit of adventure, everything that is going to happen happens according to long-established rules of the game, from the first skittish encounter to the last eager kiss. Its old-fashioned fun looks overpracticed, becoming merely another workout for a troupe of talented professionals who do their jobs with coolly measured skill rather than warmblooded will...
Equally irksome to the military was the gathering momentum of the Peronistas, the 3,000,000 diehard followers of Juan PerÓn who, through their strikes, demonstrations and exorbitant pay demands, have helped trigger the overthrow of three of the five Presidents (including Illia) who followed the deposed dictator. Under Illia, the Peronistas won 61 of Congress' 238 seats, triumphed in two of the last four provincial elections, and were an odds-on favorite to win the key provincial elections in Buenos Aires next March...
...driven out of Vietnam--the figures are credible that the North is losing more troops, and they will have to stop before we do." Quester said that the Viet Cong had been expecting a military victory, and that the reversal will probably cause hem to lose the momentum they have had until now. But he admitted that prospects still remain uncertain...
...NAKED PREY. A desperate white hunter (Cornel Wilde) flees ten man-killing native hunters, giving fierce momentum to a classic African adventure drama that never stints on beauty, blood or savagery...
...only survivor is Wilde. In a primitive sporting gesture, the natives free the courageous white man without clothes, weapons or water-and with ten stalwart young spearsmen poised to track him down. Hunted now, the hunter begins to run, and Prey gathers fierce momentum as a classic, single-minded epic of survival with no time out for fainthearted blondes or false heroics...