Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unless you count John Wayne's 1968 Green Berets, which might as well have been produced by William Westmoreland. As Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) put it several years ago, "I don't believe the war in Viet Nam can be treated in a 'popular film.' We have no capability to confront events of that enormity head-on." It was taboo, a secret, like a spectacular case of madness in the family...
...surprise was not that the Pope reaffirmed the rule, but that he did it so dramatically and so early in his reign. Despite all the popular pressure against the policy, he clearly feels that the church will be stronger in the long run if it stands by its rigorous traditions...
Contrary to popular belief, the Hasty Pudding stage will not remain dark now that "Overtures in Asia Minor" has closed; the theater will host the Harvard Shakespeare Theater's Romeo and Juliet this weekend and next. There's not much one can say about the world's most famous tragic love story, except that this interpretation has a great deal of "fast and furious" action, according to one cast member, and that director Valerie Lester is aiming for highly emotional heights. The production will be a fairly straightforward one--in other words, Capulet will be an Italian nobleman...
...Senate and Pike Committee of the House investigated the intelligence services--led to a spate of revelations about the CIA's activities. The agency had conducted drug experiments on innocent individuals, opened mail at home and been involved in nefarious covert operations abroad. It was the climax of the popular distrust for the CIA beginning with the Bay of Pigs. In retrospect the fears leading to the Congressional investigations--Seymour Hersh's allegations in The New York Times--were as exaggerated as some contemporary demands including the total abolition of the CIA. Significantly, the Church Committee concluded the agency...
...William Wrigley Jr. Company will be introducing in mid-May a soft bubble gum similar to the ever-popular Bubble-Yum, and it will begin a $10 million advertising campaign to promote the new product...