Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Badlands. The basic ambiguity in this 1974 fictionalization of the Stark weather murders of the fifties is whether the director did it on purpose. Either way we lose. If the film is serious, it is a tasteless romanticization of mass murder as teenage alienation in the silent 50's: if it's not, the film can only be taken as a coy parody of James Dean which has nothing to offer beyond its original kitchy conception...
Chipmunks graze in roadside thickets; grey playful squirrels forage for nuts--the staff of life during the winter. Denuded of their pristine leaves, the poplars and maples stand in silent testimonial to Life, and the termination and renewal thereof...
...stalled campaign. There, in Scoop Jackson's office, he went before a dozen Senators-veterans like Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, and newcomers like Colorado's Gary Hart and Florida's Richard Stone. One of them thought that the gray and silent Kirbo looked like a possum, unmoving and wary. He had brought with him top Carter agents, Landon Butler and Jack Watson, who sat scribbling into note pads...
Howe's attorney is also his campaign manager now, because Howe's first campaign manager resigned shortly after the arrest. But the decision to remain silent in city court was politically disastrous. Most of the rest of his campaign staff resigned. "I quit because I knew he couldn't be elected and I didn't want to waste my time," one ex-staffer said. "My decision was not based on whether or not he was guilty. The way he's handled it is the problem; he's said one thing and done another...
...funhouse of potential trips that stay potential, journalists discuss other journalists' intents in the New Yorker and the 20 most interesting minutes of the Carter-Ford debate were those in which the newscasters debated the concept, aim and probable effects of the broadcast while the candidates stood silent in Philadelphia...