Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been made before, Harvey Hart's The Sweet Ride exists in passive limbo between art and product and, like Blow-Up, reminds us how much can be created from a skeletal dramatic narrative. Its surf, cycle, and psychedelic setting is seldom exploited as such, and even the semi-mystery which motivates the plot is largely abandoned in favor of extended description of a bittersweet life-style gone slightly out of hand. The Sweet Ride tries to beat the trappings of its own genre by being a little better. It is, and its inevitable disappearance on Wednesday should...
Walter Lippmann came out of semi-retirement to be there. Most major U.S. newspapers were represented. Even Women's Wear Daily was on the scene, pursuing North Vietnamese female delegates for fashion comments. Surveying the crush of eager reporters, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman had only one comment: "Never have so many come so far for so little...
...Heureux); or review contemporary literary concerns, as Lubin's parody does. Any of these categories could define a separate review. To expect one journal to handle all adequately is, perhaps, too much to ask. Bogus is valuable even though the "long-standing need" is for more than a single semi-annual publication...
Parker won his heat of the semi-finals on Saturday to reach the ten-boat finals, but was outdistanced in Sunday's race...
Hoover commands more cooperation from Congressional committees than does any other man with the possible exception of General Hershey. And as head of a 16,000-man, two-hundred million dollar organization. Hoover has the kind of semi-autonomy that makes his political stands particularly dangerous. It is the responsibility of the next President of the United States to remove him from office, and it is the responsibility of University administrators now to clarify the nature of maligned political organizations...