Word: share
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little wonder that George Gallup and Louis Harris get conflicting signals when they ask questions in the far corners of the land. Many of these people now see government as an adversary; yet they rush into its embrace to claim their share of money that they feel they paid. There are no villains in this landscape...
...Cheap Detective is the spiritual rather than the direct sequel to Murder by Death, which did so nicely at the box office two summers ago. That film had the same writer, same producer, same director, even some of the same cast as Detective. Most important, the two movies share the notion that a charming pastiche of a beloved popular cultural form can turn a tidy profit in the nostalgia market. Murder aped the murderer-among-the-house-guests mystery story; The Cheap Detective jokes around with ... with ... well, the Humphrey Bogart movie...
...cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose. At a farm community she is told of a vegetarianism so strict that members wear no leather or down-filled clothing. Neither will they eat honey because it is "too heavy on the bees...
...began to make notes. He asked for names of officials; he wanted more names; he wanted us to make a full report to him, leaving out no names. In a flat manner, as if restating a fact to himself, he said that he had told the army to share its grain with the people. Then he thanked us; told me that I was a better investigator than "any of the investigators I have sent on my own." And I was ushered...
Hurley had made his mark as a politician in the Republican convention of 1928 in Houston, where he was one of the floor managers corralling delegates for Herbert Hoover. An Oklahoma corporation lawyer, he got his piece of the traditional share-out of office after a Presidential victory, being named Secretary of War in 1928. Later Franklin Roosevelt, making the war a bipartisan effort, sent Hurley, now accoutered as a major general, to negotiate with Chiang K'ai-shek for both the creation of a coalition government between Communists and Nationalists...