Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cent of the taxpayers' dollars, controlling more industries than Howard Hughes, and protecting just about every nation with the exception of the Soviet Union and china. What are we becoming? A vast war machine. We are a military-industrial nation. I'm not a political theorist, nor do I pretend to be, but man, we've got to stop and think this over. This must stop before we start taking over our own government...
...sion of problems - many of the troubles that beset Lindsay. But Lindsay's own record is now tarnished, and at the press conference announcing his candidacy, Wagner was in confident good humor. He proclaimed no bold new programs-of course. Instead, the soothing voice intoned: "I do not pretend or believe that I can solve all the problems of New York City." But he made it clear that he thought he could do a better job than Lindsay, whom he accused of multiplying the city's problems. Wagner's style is more Miltown than Fun City...
...longer pretend that this war results from a lack of educated Army officers; we must recognize that its roots lie in all institutions of our society, including the university. ROTC trains 70% of the Army's junior officers, men who are sent to battle against the Vietnamese and other liberation movements all over the world. ROTC is only the least subtle of the university's many contributions to the U.S. foreign policy of domination, but our fight against ROTC threatens the status quo in courses, admissions, research, investments arid disciplines as well...
Lloyd has beater the draft by convincing the psychiatrist that he is a homosexual, while Jon and Paul pretend that they are manic right-wingers. Jon asks to be put in the "middle" lines so that he can pick off a few "niggers, spics, Jews, and other commies" while he is shooting "the chinks." Vietnam, and the ways in which it has changed and bedeviled young people, runs through this film like a leitmotif...
...much of its hero's uncanny superiority. On the other hand, Sam Whiskey simply lies, since its hero, played by someone named Burt Reynolds, is plainly incapable of doing anything competently and is indeed fortunate to have a director and a writer (their names elude me) who want to pretend that he can. Mr. Reynolds, who was probably in a TV show once, plays as if he were trying to become a child star, and Sam Whiskey is distinguished only by the quiet talents of Miss Dickinson (a long way from Hawks) and Clint "Cheyenne" Walker, a good actor...