Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole gamut of situations in Finney's cinematic odyssey is trite. There is the alley beat-up, the married woman knock-up, the beerhall cut-up and three henpecked husbands. At the end our hero ambles into the smoggy milltown sunset holding hands with a nice girl. It's all warmed over, but it tastes fine. Whether fishing on the proverbial riverbank or visiting his friendly neighborhood abortionist, Finney is obviously looking for a way to understand (and like) his life...
...marveled, "a nice guy." In recent weeks, more and more people have come to admire Orville Freeman as a nice, hardworking, dedicated guy. Yet much of the increased respect for Freeman is like that given to a man who is drowning-bravely. As Agriculture Secretary, Freeman has the most miserable job in Washington: he must struggle with the scandalous U.S. farm program, which last year cost the taxpayers $6 billion. Freeman's feed-grain program did reduce the wheat stockpile by some 800 million...
...Viet Cong. Said a Vietnamese officer: "We hope they'll rejoin their families when they see that life in the strategic village is good.'' TIME Correspondent Jerry Rose asked a peasant volunteer if he preferred Ben Tuong to his former hamlet. He answered: "I had a nice home with a garden before." Why had he come here? "We were told to come by the chief of the province." Why had he been moved? "I don't know." Had the Viet Cong harmed him? "No, no. I saw them, but they never bothered me." Night Attack...
...matched with leading men whom she could have swallowed with half a glass of water. "It's very difficult to find a man who can compete with me, with how I look on the screen," she says with professionally detached candor. "It would be a nice experience to be dominated for once." Tab Hunter was her partner in That Kind of Woman. When little 5-ft. 6-in. Alan Ladd did a film with 5-ft. 8-in. Sophia, a trench was dug so they could walk along side by side. Houseboat gave her a chance to show...
...Hasty Pudding boys who sing songs. There are some 16 of them, and they have just recorded an album (of 18 songs) called "Warm and Cool...." Most of the songs on this record, at least as arranged and blended by the Kroks, are really neither warm nor cool--just nice...