Word: oles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spectacle at Snake River Canyon was not "a blue-collar Woodstock." It was more of a redneck Altamont. It's great to know that the good ole heartland is just as frivolous and decadent as the East and West Coasts...
...especially the screenwriter, who based his script on real people from his high school days-wax nostalgic for delicate love and ruined innocence. These commodities were evidently to be found right after World War II down in rural Georgia, where some kids on the way to being good ole boys conduct puberty rites by jumping on the acquiescent body of Billie (Joan Goodfellow). Acquiescent, but not responsive. As the fellows wriggle and writhe, Billie lies there, face turned away, absently tossing pebbles into the swamp water. Billie may not be quite all there...
...that went to the other ten candidates. A majority of the voters, including 70% of the state's 450,000 registered blacks, stayed away from the polls last week. If many absentees show up for the runoff, they too are expected to help Busbee put an end to Ole Lester's political career...
...better ditties crooned at Washington's annual Gridiron Club dinner, and one recent effort included this spoof of Gerald Ford's close ties to business, sung to the tune of America the Beautiful: "Oh beautiful for Tel and Tel . . . for Pontiac and Cadillac, and good ole Jerry Ford." TerHorst had written two-thirds of an unofficial Ford biography when he was tapped for his new job, and says he still hopes to complete the book this year...
This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape...