Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLEA BARGAINS: IMPROVE APPEARANCES...
...both willful and wistful. All enemies are united in a common bond of honor. Blood shed is never ignoble, always ennobling, and adversaries fight with grace and mutual respect. The movie even has enough bluff and crust to look, at least superficially, like a real military romance, even a plea for manifest destiny. These notions are not being advanced as political theory but as the sort of antique sentiments that keep the movie true to its storybook sources. The glory, Milius knows, was mostly a dream. It is this knowledge that tinges the film with melancholy and also helps animate...
...plea occurs at a particularly convenient time, because angels of every condition have convened in historic Liederkranz Hall on Manhattan's East 58th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues, to hammer out a new moral code for human society. The angels cannot understand a relatively new development called "money," which has become the most powerful of humanity's totems. They begin to suspect that the million-dollar lapel grabber and his wife can help...
...plea drew a mixture of loud boos and applause from nearly 1000 people jammed into a student union hall at the UMass-Amherst campus...
...Saigon's Central Post Office, crowds clawed their way toward the telegram counter from 8 a.m. until the curfew at 8 p.m. Cable traffic quadrupled to 20,000 messages as the cries for help went out round the world. One man in West Virginia got a typical plea couched in garbled but earnest English: "Please send Red Cross to U.S. embassy in Saigon to help me process paper as a fianc?...