Word: retreads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon Vesta has made the poet "normal" and "sane" by making him no poet at all. Brainwashed into a wholly new identity, Enderby emerges as Piggy Hogg, an inarticulate London bartender and retread "useful citizen"-the welfare state's version of death and transfiguration...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). George Segal, Arthur Hill, Teresa Wright and Yvette Mimieux in a TV retread of The Desperate Hours...
Oddly enough, Rock finds little happiness in Happenings, but he does develop a thirst. One drink leads to another, and the aftertaste leads him back to Scarsdale. Ultimately he learns that it takes more than a surgical retread to renew the inner man, which was perhaps obvious all along...
...Laslo Benedek, The Wild One was a sociological shocker that in the main effectively described a sick subculture. Directed by Roger Corman, a cut-rate master of the macabre who seems to work better with spiders than he does with actors, The Wild Angels is a sleazily synthetic retread that will probably take a long skid through U.S. grind houses. However, the film may well make a mark in Europe...
...team-a necessity with the Celtics, who as champions always have last pick in the N.B.A. draft. "You take a washed-up guy," he says, "and if you instill his pride again and create desire, you can squeeze a good year or two out of him." A typical Auerbach retread: Forward Don Nelson, who scored 2.4 points per game for the Los Angeles Lakers last year. With the Celtics, Nelson is averaging 10 points per game...