Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between Lake George and Glens Falls, N.Y. "I was running away. I was running away from England, from my childhood, from the winter, from a sequence of untidy, unattractive love affairs . . ." Vivienne goes on at some length about the love affairs. The most recent was Kurt, a West German newspaperman, who made love with West German industry and efficiency until she, with English inefficiency, got pregnant. After an abortion in Zurich she bought a Vespa, some saucy fur-lined goggles, and "a rather dashing pair of black kid motorcycling gloves," then set out to work and scooter her way down...
...finals of the New York Golden Gloves tournament, 19-year-old Heavyweight Ray Patterson shook off the effects of a hard right that buckled his knees, fought back to win a decisive victory over Brooklyn Newspaperman Tommy Watkins. Said Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, on hand to watch his kid brother fight: "There's a difference. I go down when I'm hit. Ray doesn...
...Shout. Newspaperman always shout no matters what they're doing...
This British film is neatly made. Although the plot is simple there is considerable depth to the sequences and the action never drags. All the actors give excellent performances. If some of the characterizations are a little exaggerated, the snooping newspaperman, for instance, or the analvst in his group therapy sessions, this is so slight as to actually add to the movie's credibility. Certainly the movie is well worth seeing...
...novel ends with a clear parallel to the Crucifixion. A corrupt, muckraking newspaperman (a stock figure so frequently employed in British fiction that he pops onstage, lines already learned, before the author has finished introducing him) threatens the pornographers, and the bookseller accepts the collective guilt of his healed cripples and goes to prison for them. Rather unnecessarily, Bloomfield has one of his characters point out the symbolism. Samson, then, is saviour, after all, and his gospel is a passage from Albert Camus: "I hate virtue that is only smugness; I hate the frightful morality of the world...