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Word: reals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justice to the drug (compare Conrad Rooks' sublime hallucinations in Chappaqua or in any film by Jordan Belson). Hopper also has an irritating editing affectation: when indicating the passage of time he'll cut two frames of the next sequence in twice at the end of the preceding scene. Real avant-garde...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Easy Rider | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

Hopper's frankly commercial use of rock gives us one more insight into his real sensibility. Easy Rider may be a hippy vision, but it's a bourgeois hippy vision, concocted with both eyes on the market place. Just listen to how Hopper treated sex, and why: "I knew that Peter and I the girls we meet would never be seen totally nude in the nude swimming scene, because I wanted to show the over-forty crowd that it is possible to play like innocent children in the nude without getting into sex." In the echo chamber of our Hollywood...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Easy Rider | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

...while combined Soviet-American losses from a thermonuclear exchange involving both first-and second-strike capabilities would come to more than two hundred and fifty million persons." Although most of the scientists' attention is centered on the Arizona desert, Michael Crichton, often unwittingly so, makes you wonder where the real disease really lies...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Infectious | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

...real losers are those who followed ABC's advice. The Internal Revenue Service is reportedly letting them dissolve their private trusts and foundations, and no criminal charges will be brought. At the very least, though, they will have to pay all their back taxes, plus interest. The victims have one consolation: the IRS may let them write off their ABC fees as theft losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fraud: A Taxing Experience | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Extraordinary Nielsen. Emerging as the real stars of Hee Haw are some of the previously unknown supporting players, who are less polished rustics. Stringbean, the emaciated chap who appears with the puppet crow on his shoulder, can barely read, according to friends, and has to be taught lines by his wife. Junior Samples, the fat man (275 Ibs.), professed to have nothing to wear but his "Sunday overalls" at a CBS celebration party. Introduced to a key network executive-"Junior, this is the vice president"-Junior ingenuously responded: "Hello, Mr. Agnew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Corn Is Still Green | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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