Word: putney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Putney Swope. Robert Downey's film has, with age, lost quite a bit of its bite, but it's still entertaining. It was made at a time when blacks were almost universally regarded as fearsome creatures, and derived a good portion of its punch from that premise. A black man becomes the president of a large Madison Avenue advertising agency by mistake, and proceeds to turn the company on its head. Particularly hilarious are the television commercials that Swope makes up, which put real people in stereotypical ad situations...
Blazing Saddles, 1:30, 4:50, 8:10. Putney Swope, 12, 3:15, 6:30, 10. Through...
Seven national championships were at stake in the snow-covered countryside outside Putney, Vt., last week, but nobody except the contestants seemed to care. There was no grandstand at the finish line, only a dozen spectators and race officials were on hand to greet the racers, and no one offered the finishers so much as a cup of hot chocolate. In fact, one Putney resident passing by did not even know that the U.S. National Cross-Country Championship Races, the big so-called nordic skiing event of the year, were taking place almost in her backyard...
Though the trappings of high-powered competition were not present at Putney, high-powered racers were. Topranked Bill Koch, who placed third in the 15-km. races at the European Junior Championships last year, won the 15 km., gliding through the familiar terrain near his family farm in Guilford, Vt. In the 50-km. ordeal, Tim Caldwell, a wiry young Olympic hopeful, won going away. And the country's top woman racer, Martha Rockwell, now has 15 individual national titles after winning the women's 5-, 10-and 20-km. contests...
...expected to re-create the desperate, ineffectual rage that sometimes leads people to attempt suicide. In this clear and measured biography, Critic Claire Tomalin, the new literary editor of the New Statesman, wisely allows the facts to smolder on their own. In October 1795 Mary Wollstonecraft jumped off Putney Bridge into the Thames; the bargemen who pulled her out saved her for a more humiliating fate...