Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet from shore, a Republican would throw him a 25-ft. rope and tell him to swim to the other end of the rope because it would be good for his character, whereas the Democrat would throw him a 100-ft. rope and run off looking for others to save...
...ultimate aspirations, can enlist the best and worst in its congregations. In conflict, religion can be used-or perverted-to call up supernatural justifications for killing. In 1915 the Bishop of London asked his congregation to "kill Germans, to kill them, not for the sake of killing, but to save the world, to kill the good as well as the bad, to kill." The dark side of religious conviction can be a violent intractability, an avenging angel's note of retribution. As Martin Luther wrote, "He who will not hear God's word when it is spoken with...
Died. Shad Polier, 70, South Carolina-born white civil rights lawyer, who won prominence in 1931 by joining the defense team that waged a long, ultimately successful fight to save the lives of the nine black defendants in the landmark Scottsboro case, which established that blacks could no longer be excluded from juries; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan...
Desperate Scheme. The movie has to do with the efforts of a down-at-the-heels Hollywood director named Mel Funn (portrayed, inevitably, by Brooks himself) and his desperate scheme to save not just his own career but a major studio. Funn wants to make a silent movie, a comedy, of course. The studio chief (Sid Caesar) thinks Mel is nuts, but Mel, a pro, counters with the one blandishment proved irresistible to moguls on the ropes - movie stars. What if Funn and his two buddies (Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise) are able to round up some of Hollywood...
Anne Ives, as the 72-year-old victim Rebecca Nurse, is much too weak of voice; and she behaves more like a queen-dowager than a Salem villager. But Sarallen makes believable the somewhat comic Barbadian Negro slave, Tituba, who confesses to "conjuring" to save her neck...