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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Kennedy assassinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Top of the Decade: The Nation | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

THOUGH Viet Nam has been his specialty since 1961, Sir Robert Thompson was never influential with either John Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson. It was Richard Nixon who embraced his views wholeheartedly-most likely because they coincide with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President's Guerrilla Expert | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Gloria arbitrarily accepts Rocky's put-down as her epitaph. Out on the boardwalk and out of the marathon, she aims a pistol at her temple. Then, for the first time, her temerity falters. "Help me," she begs Robert, and Robert obligingly turns the attempted suicide into a murder. The farm boy's explanation to the police: "They shoot horses, don't they?" Yes, they do-but only when the animal is broken. As Fonda plays the part, Gloria is a born survivor, a cork of a woman who would bob to the surface of a sewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marathon '32 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...Polonsky has conceived of Willie-and as Robert Blake plays him with cold command-he is a symbol of Hemingway's maxim in To Have and Have Not: "A man alone ain't got no bloody chance." Willie has even less than no chance. "I'm only an Indian," he tells his girl (Katharine Ross), "and no one cares what Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Exiles | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...only characters in this despairing vision who are allowed even a trace of self are a Radcliffe-educated Indian agent (Susan Clark) and the sheriff (Robert Redford) who heads the posse that hunts Willie. But the agent's social concern is only a manifestation of her neuroticism, and the sheriff's primitive feelings of empathy with the fleeing Indian are overcome by ingrained habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Exiles | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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