Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...songs of regional chauvinism and banners of ethnic pride exacerbate racial tension? That is a touchy question these days, what with black students hoisting a black-liberation flag in Newark classrooms and a black state legislator walking out of a banquet in Richmond when the band struck up Carry Me Back to Old Virginia...
Jimmy was a great believer in the ideal of the student-athlete, and while he devoted all of his energies to sports, he considered a player's studies to be more important. His greatest pride came in following the careers of his boys after they had graduated...
Though the frenzy's wearing out, interest in film criticism holds firm these days. It has even acquired a patina of academic respectability and professional pride. There has always been a handful of good critics writing on film. Until recent times, however, most newspaper critics were 'altered' sportswriters and second-string drama men, and most magazine film writers--failed book critics...
...violence into intrigue and spectacle, when the last drop of blood has drained from the seven bodies who got in the way of the big businessmen and the pursuers. Friedkin's adaptation of the case makes it clear the real driving forces behind them have been mere avarice and pride. The smugglers are only intent on making some dishonest bucks, and Detective Jimmy "Popeye". Doyle (who caught onto the case and kept it going on a determined hunch) wants only the prestige of a big bust...
There are no good guys after all, only ambitious guys. At best, there are guys who are doing their job and who want, there are guys who are doing their job and who want, out of natural pride, to do it well. That's the most you can say for Friedkin's narcotics cops. But it's the most you can say for most of us in this world, and for projecting that bland truth up onto the silver screen. Friedkin deserves at least mild congratulations...