Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soft Sell or No Sale...
...Jesus we had fun." After four decades, its heroes and heroines look as comically self-conscious as silent-movie characters, trying to gather their rosebuds in vigorous deadpan. What comes through most clearly is the sentimentality lurking beneath. Hemingway, hard as nails on the outside but soft as a baby impala on the inside, was an archetypical son of the era. And Dorothy Parker, who died last week of a heart attack at 73, was one of its most representative daughters...
...Wagon. Out of the West he jogs, the familiar bleached red shirt and wide-brimmed hat announcing the arrival of John Wayne in his 162nd film. As inevitable as death and Texas, Wayne again plays a hard-nosed, soft-spoken loner-a once-wealthy rancher whose gold-filled land has been stolen in a swindle. Back he comes, seeking revenge with four men foolhardy enough to join him in a scheme to restore his riches: a leathery gunfighter (Kirk Douglas); an outlaw Indian (Howard Keel); an alcoholic kid (Robert Walker) whose favorite mixture is whisky and nitroglycerin; and a wagon...
L.B.J., he relates in page after fact-packed page, is "fond of soft, fattening foods-chipped beef, creamed chicken, beef stroganoff, lamb hash, stuffed peppers. He loves tapioca pudding. . . A homemade pie makes Mr. Johnson swallow with anticipation." When he is angry or irritated, "his mouth forms a huge 'O' and he sounds like a hog caller." He makes telephone calls while he dresses, so that he might be talking about the threat of thermonuclear war "with one leg thrust into the trousers." When he kisses Lady Bird, "he enfolds her in his arms and says goodnight...
...sheet; after a few sighs, his mind wanders away from crises and commitments to the pleasant task of re-creating happy scenes at the ranch or on the lake; he remembers old friends . . . they all flow together in a slowly swirling series of thoughts which fade at the first soft snore...