Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MAYBE SEX AND politics can be mixed to produce literature and social commentary, but fat adventure stories about Washington, which always include the sex and the politics, can rarely be included in the categories of either social commentary or literature. Tom Wicker's Facing the Lions is Washington soap opera--not of literature or social commentary...
...Ethics of the Soap Box Derby...
...uncle of the disqualified Soap Box Derby winner who admitted suggesting an illegal device [Sept. 10] seemed to be operating under a set of ethical principles known as the Watergate Rationale: 1) Winning is all that counts: 2) If we had not been caught there would have been nothing wrong: 3) The competition was probably doing the same thing so this was just a case of getting an even break: 4) But now that we have been caught, we realize that we made a mistake: 5) Please believe that our previous victories were won honestly...
American Graffiti is not a soft soap film like its nostalgia predecessors. The end of the film, which is a mite too fanciful (with the college bound boy flying away on "Magic Carpet Airways"), is sober if not sobering. Everybody does not get his girl. But everyone does make his decision. One way or another, for one reason or another, the boys have taken their cards and Lucas will force each one to play them...
When 14-year-old James H. Gronen of Boulder, Colo., was disqualified two weeks ago for rigging his car with a secret electromagnet to win the 1973 All-American Soap Box Derby, it seemed that he was a boy whose all-American ingenuity was exceeded only by his guile. Now it turns out that his uncle and legal guardian, Robert Lange, founder of a ski-equipment firm called the Lange Co., taught him all he knew. In a letter to the derby director in Boulder, Lange said not only that the magnetic nose "has been around for years" but that...