Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently the former director, Charles O. Honnet, who is now in Corvalis, Oregon, without a telephone and unreachable for comment, hired more students than in the past because he thought most students prefer summer jobs to work during the year...
...zowee-am, swoosh, but with a heavy psycho-social punch packed behind it all. Yet the first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except for a few "bigger than life" episodes that don't translate in this true-to-life context, the whole picture comes across with much more sincerity than the Kesey original. And in this troubling...
...claim he is going to win the election. Even his professed hope of capturing four or five states is farfetched. Nonetheless he plans to spend the rest of the race concentrating on nine states where he has a substantial following among liberal Democrats and independents-Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Oregon, Michigan, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and California. That strategy looks as if it is designed to maximize the damage to Carter, and McCarthy seems almost to relish the role of wrecker. He says almost gleefully to applauding audiences: "I've been accused of being a spoiler. Well...
...WEST. Ford is out front in Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. Two states, Alaska and Montana, are leaning toward him. Carter is ahead only in Hawaii, and he has slipped there. California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada remain too close to call...
...WEST: Carter leads only in Hawaii. Colorado, New Mexico, Washington and even Oregon are too close to call. So is California, the biggest prize...