Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boggs: Why do you think they spent that money...
...camera or more quickly, and barroom brawls are also less bruising. As a result, the first victims of TV's pacification drive have been the stuntmen. Employment among the fight-and-fall corps is down 40%. "We used to have nice drag-out fights and make some good money," laments Chuck Hicks, president of the Stuntmen's Association. "Now a guy just pulls a gun and stands there. So we suffer...
...there comes the realization that for most of the 340 women and 312 men who paid their money and took their chances, the trip has satisfied their expectations, if not their wildest hopes. Putting it in practical terms, Milgrim points out that "for most singles, a date with anyone is better than staying at home." More piously, he adds: "You bring some happiness to some people, the whole thing becomes worthwhile." At $10 a head for his computer service ashore, and a percentage of the gross receipts afloat, very worthwhile indeed...
...pictures Jesus as a politically aware activist vigorously working against the Palestinian "Establishment"-the Roman occupying forces and Jerusalem's collaborationist Jewish aristocracy. As a champion of the poor, says Brandon, Jesus went so far as to lead an abortive raid on the Temple treasury to dispossess its money-hungry directors. The raid, disguised in the Gospels as a one-man assault on the profane money changers, quickly led to Jesus' denunciation by the high priests and then to his Roman trial. Far from dying ignominiously as a Jew rejected by his nation, Jesus in effect died...
...alcoholic steelworker, appropriately named Tank (Julian Mayfield), is rejected by his white employers and his black power-hungry companions. When one of the rebels murders a man during a holdup, Tank, blinded by resentment and fumes of booze, turns him in for $1,000 in reward money. Assailed by guilt, he abruptly endows a sidewalk preacher and a bunch of barflies with $20 bills. Militants spot the trail of green and run Tank to earth. Almost gratefully he accepts their revenge: a bullet in the stomach...