Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unseemly scorn for their party on election day. Happening upon the Prime Minister at a polling booth, Vorster's United Party opponent, Elias Olivier, approached him with a greeting. In response, the jut-jawed apostle of kragdadigheid jeered: "Go play marbles, young man"-and he refused even to shake Olivier's hand...
...that there's not much else to say about the Janus film festival running this week at the Harvard Square. With a couple of exceptions, there will be two solid masterpieces a day, so many miles of beautiful celluloid that the only hazard is OD-ing on quality. To shake the habit there's always High Plains Drifter, a reminder that the medium still has some problems. Eastwood may drive a locomotive through the saloon in this one, or annihilate some illegally immigrated Chicanos or something...
Last Tango and Streetcar. Remember what Woody Allen looked like after the Orgasmatron went berserk in Sleeper? This double bill still makes me shake my head and grope for a drink...
...economists were poets, they would pay more attention to spring. That season of hope and expectation is normally a time for Americans to shake off their winter torpor, get out of the house and spend. Yet when spring began officially last week, consumers were in one of their chilliest moods in many a season...
Much Life. Gould is especially adept at a stumblebum wise-guy act, which stands him in good stead through most of the movie. It is a pose, however, that he finds difficult to shake. When he is called upon to look injured and badly beaten, he does not quite pull...