Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last someone in this nation of sheep has the guts to stand up against the spoiled college brats. These wet-behind-the-ears babies overran their parents, and their school administrators, and now they are after the President and the United States of America...
...Herded Sheep. They start gathering in St. Peter's Square as the sun comes over the magnificent Bernini colonnade -black suits and neckties, Bermuda shorts and T shirts, miniskirts barely covering buttocks, long-sleeved dresses with mantillas. In long lines before wooden barriers, young couples love each other up, oldsters lean wearily on crutches. A roar of protest in a dozen languages goes up as a middle-aged American with a red face tries an end run. He is spat on as he retreats, his wife near tears...
When the barriers go down and the bronze doors of St. Peter's part, people are herded like stray sheep into pens on both sides of the central nave. Outside, a few holders of blue tickets are ushered along niches and cornices of pitted travertine marble through a side entrance and into box seats from which they can observe, with slightly arched nostrils, the antics below...
...ostrichlike emus in a single sweep. Thousands of rare giant green sea turtles have also lately been killed for their oil, a prime ingredient of some skin creams. What Australians are doing to the kangaroo, the country's unofficial symbol, was recently summed up by an outback sheep farmer who bragged: "On my spread, we've shot 20,000 'roos in the last four years and there's still lots left." Also vanishing, at least in wild areas: the koala "Teddy bear" and the Tasmanian wolf, a zebra-striped, carnivorous marsupial that often hops kangaroo-like...
...past films (Crazy Quilt, Funnyman), Director John Korty has shown a predilection for whimsy. Here, almost as a reaction, he presents a stark, lean story of a young couple who go back to the land to scratch out some meaning. They have abandoned Berkeley, and now raise sheep in the ineffable Northern California coast. To the couple, it is an act of love; to the old man, the idyl is pointless and backward. He insists on staying with the unmarried couple until the baby comes, and snipes at their supernatural way of life. As the wrangle intensifies, Korty alleviates...