Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ending is a betrayal of all that is best in the film, revealing that the film makers have been interested in apologizing for George, not satirizing him. Still, much of Shampoo is good enough to make one regret its ultimate failure. The overpriced lassitude of Southern California living is well caught. Much of the dialogue has a keen edge ("I've been cutting too much hair lately," George rues at one point. "I'm losing all my concept"). The acting-especially Grant and Warden and Carrie Fisher, who appears as their nubile daughter-is well observed and sprightly...
...official French response was a moderately worded statement of regret. Popular and press reaction was considerably more acidulous toward perfidious Albion. Interpreting the pullout as an anti-European gesture, the daily Le Monde said: "Great Britain is an island and intends to remain...
...fall of 1971, when word came that Attica prisoners had revolted and were holding hostages, Alpert says she knew instantly that Melville would be killed. As she tells it, confirmation came from a Los Angeles radio announcer who said, "Here's one death no one will regret-Samuel Melville, the mad bomber." In her grief, she blurted out to a friend that she had known one of the Attica victims. When the friend innocently passed the word around, Alpert took to the road once again...
Dean objected to Watergate Burglar G. Gordon Liddy's comparing him to Judas in a CBS-TV interview. "Judas did not forewarn Christ," Dean noted. "But if I am Judas, I don't regret turning from the religion I turned from...
...Ervin Jr., 78, Democratic Senator from North Carolina for 20 years: "My greatest regret has been my inability to enact some very basic laws that would guarantee individual freedom. I believe that you ought to leave as much governing as possible to the people at the local level...