Word: russel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russel K. Havighorst...
...TROUBLE with Russell, and with this new sensationalism in general, is that values get lost and confused in the morass of enthusiasm. When Tommy becomes a pinball wizard and a fabulous star. Townshend's opera tries to make some dramatic statements about the plight of the rock personality. Riches don't mean happiness, young boppers get kicked in the face by bodyguards when they rush the stage--that sort of thing. But Russell can't resist playing these scenes for the vicarious turn-on. Tommy smashes a figurative mirror, regains his senses, sings, "I'm Free," and leads the millions...
...Palestinians as well. More than 1,000 policemen were detailed to handle security for Arafat's visit. The most ominous threat came from the militant but tiny and discredited Jewish Defense League, which boasted that it would assassinate Arafat. FBI agents arrested J.D.L. "Operations Officer" Russel Kelner, 33, on a charge of "transmitting in interstate commerce" a threat to kill Arafat; he was held on $100,000 cash bail...
...Powell's previous volume, Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), who now moves to center stage. As promiscuous and frigid as ever, she lends a macabre sexual touch to dreadful Widmerpool's international intriguing. She also ensnares Powell's two important new characters-Louis Glober and Russel Gwinnett...
Women in Love. A Ken Russel extravaganza. The taste of movie lovers generally can be calculated along an axis: those who like Women in Love intersects the line of those who don't. Those who like it usually don't like Godard, Resnais, exponents of the New Sensibility; they prefer Elvira Madigan to The Emigrants, Tolstoy to Proust, Flaubert to Gide. They choose oreos over hydrox, Pepsi over Coke, The Beatles over Traffic, Ritz over Saltines, Lily Pulitzer over Design Research, Cliffie peaches over Cliffie limes, and so on and so forth. Allston Cinema...