Word: polyanna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There have been other movies about children. But what children! Our Gang exists somewhere west of the moon. You don't bump into Shirley Temples at the grocery store. Once, in Tiger Bay, before she freaked out as Polyanna, Hayley Mills played a child. But the movie, like Sundays and Cybele, focuses on a sexy little girl's relationship with a fugitive. Every other little girl isn't so lucky...
...would turn milksoppy. Mills probably has a provisional clause in his movie contracts: "I shall produce X-hundred buckets of tears on screen, or else ..." His daughter Hayley Mills isn't underproductive herself, but she's vivacious enough to get away with it. Remember how she got away with Polyanna, made from the book that was so bad it made the Bobbsey Twins look good...
...says. It would be unfair to characterize Kissinger as a man in terror of his own viewpoint. Whether or not his programs are useful, he performs a valuable service in his general analysis, which he himself considers more important than the specifics. If only in disabusing liberals of Polyanna attitudes, he justifies himself with a clear and often unarguable description of the alternatives facing American foreign policy in the present decade...
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