Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Party Fast once found an inspiring movement and struggle, a brave, historic fight for freedom. Even when he entered prison he went as a writer, a man whose purpose was to build up a store of experience. He told his wife at the time that it would be a shame for a writer never to experience imprisonment...
...everything there is to say about violence in American sports. James Caan is macho-competent, as usual, and the sets are something--the crowd scenes for this amalgamation of roller derby and first degree assault were filmed in the Olympic Stadium in Munich. In a way, it's a shame--in the hands of a William Friedkin, this could have been a 90-minute reminder that the future does not belong to us. Instead it's a two-and-a-half hour monstrolsity. Stay home and read The Silmarrilon this weekend...
Three and one-half pages on Elvis and one paragraph on Groucho [Aug. 29]? Shame...
...shame someone did not shoot him dead before he was captured. And now-oh essence of stupidity-it will be tax moneys from all of us, even from Social Security pittances like mine, that will be used to keep him in an asylum...
...plans to open the house to tourists next spring and charge admission. Visitors will see Hammersmith just as it was furnished at the time of the 1953 Bouvier-Kennedy wedding and glimpse the desk where a vacationing President signed several bills into law. "It would have been a terrible shame if they had concreted it and put in a music shell or something," says Sughrue. Nevertheless, he is planning to build seven luxury homes on the property-not to mention a concrete parking lot for the tour buses...