Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially palatable for the members of the counterculture. In fact, they represent the end of much of the movement's dream. In that dilemma, some straight jobs have become acceptable. "Driving cabs is the In thing for hippies right now in New York," says the underground cartoonist Mad John Peck. In Berkeley, the freaks have formed their own cab company, and the cabs are psychedelically painted bombs navigated solely by longhairs. Being a letter carrier is also acceptable, and mailmen with Prince Valiant cuts abound. Some straight newspapers like the Boston Globe have allowed invasions of freak reporters...
...also too willing to compromise in order to make the films he wished to. Kauffmann sententiously stated once that the Huston of Sierra Madre would have burned the script to Moby Dick rather than have Gregory Peck star as Captain Ahab...
...addition, the groups are calling for "a week of local and regional actions during the first week of May, the national focus of which will probably be on May 5 in Washington for clear militant, non-violent acts of civil disobedience," according to Louise Peck, one of the meeting's speakers...
...group grew out of four meetings held by Sydney Peck, co-founder of the National Mobilization to End the War, which attempted to "define a multi-issue, multi-tactic coalition with responsiveness to both peace and social issues...
...that the love affair between Alma and the sheriff lacks the qualities of desperation and frustration that would make it convincing. Alvin Sargent's script does not help matters much with such ritual movie Southernisms as "Eat your beans, Grandpa" and "Would you like a Dr Pepper?" Peck succeeds in conveying the sheriff's vulnerability but never his passion...