Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Just as Oscar Wilde once remarked that the youth of America is its oldest tradition, much the same could be said of complaints about the failings of the U.S. political system. George Washington grumbled that "the stupor, or listlessness with which our public measures seem to be pervaded, is, to me, matter of deep regret." Through all the criticism, the mere fact that the system has survived more than two centuries of turbulent change is the strongest possible evidence of its solidity. While the American way of Government has repeatedly stood accused of inefficiency, the best defense is that...
...Deer Hunter turned in a healthy profit and won the New York Film Critics Award and the Oscar as Best Picture of the Year. But the Quandary aside, Fort Apache, despite its emotional jerry-rigging, stands as a silly sham and a dismal artistic failure...
...Oscar Handlin, the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, yesterday wished Bailyn luck in his new position, which he said "makes one available for all sorts of odd jobs because since you don't have to do anything people assume you have nothing...
...acting marvels. In one she mimics Humpty Dumpty about to fall off the wall but retaining full possession of a frog-horned comic baritone voice, and in the other she conducts the dialogue between Alice and the White Queen, taking both parts in a way that would have enchanted Oscar Wilde. Why isn't she performing Wilde, or Congreve or Shakespeare or Shaw, instead of gracing this cacophonous chicken coop of a musical...
...heroes-John Ford, George Stevens, William Wyler, most especially John Huston-emerged from the klieg lights of Hollywood fantasy into the strobe lights of enemy strafing to record the war as artist-combatants. Ford, wounded while photographing The Battle of Midway (1942), kept on shooting and won an Oscar for his pains. Huston's war trilogy suffered more serious casualties...