Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marine Corps, and now quietly despises his job administering driving tests for the California department of motor vehicles. The "twins" are Mac (Sally Kellerman), who is drifting around the country vaguely looking for a job singing country music, and Frisbee (Mackenzie Phillips), a teen-age orphan who is just plain drifting. Frisbee may not be as tough as she thinks she is, but she is definitely not as appealing as the people who made this movie seem to think she must...
...Trade: Plain Baloney...
...Soviets' position that this is unjustified as an unwarranted interference in their domestic affairs would be like justifying the continuance of business with Hitler while being aware of his murder camps for fear of being criticized for interfering with Germany's domestic affairs. This is plain baloney...
...evolutionary terms, Seascape is a very convincing plug for the amoeba, or perhaps just plain plankton...
...YORKER is distinguished above all by plain good writing; but, more than that, especially in the "casuals" and "Talk pieces" that appear in the front of the magazine, the writing shows a distinctive humor, low-key and urbane, that seems to float effortlessly above all that is encumbered and earth-bound. "How easy I have found it," Gill writes, "to rush pell-mell through the world, playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me, and colliding with good times at every turn." It's as if he has lived his life in New Yorker style, a life...