Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVENTUALLY we'll realize that the rain isn't going to stop. Saturday's good weather was a final taunt, merely a parody of Harvard football weather to remind us of a lost era. Someone will probably point out that this rain started after Nixon's speech, and that it rained quite a bit after his election, too. But, remembering the simian grimaces, the compulsive wiping of a sweaty upper lip, the glazed smile after fluffed lines, we'll realize that Richard Nixon just isn't in the rain-maker league. Then there will be the handful of optimists...
...insult anytime I please. buddy boy. I wish you'd try to stop me," said the cameraman as he forces the Weatherman to back up to the stairs leading away from the room, matching him step for step...
Almost all of us started hating the war because we wanted to stop what was called "the senseless killing." We were flower children and soft people, and war just did not make sense...
...later explained that he meant the Washington protest to be peaceful, and said it was an effort to put political pressure on the Justice Department to stop the trial, "I think any violence [at that demonstration] will come from the police," he said...
Mazursky has also learned to stop copping out on some small philosophical points. For instance, since he made I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, he has clearly done a little pot smoking; the "getting stoned" scene in his new picture has no freaking out and colored lights. Mazursky provides, at last, an honest, non-exploitational treatment of the joys of grass in a Hollywood film...