Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...JOHN GLENN in Philip Kaufman's production of Tom Wolfe's. The Right Stuff says "by golly" a lot, as in, "by golly, my kids are behind me 100 percent." Even after the Russians move ahead in the space race. Glenn still favors rather tame condemnations, as in, "darned Russians." Fellow astronaut Gus Grissom, not given to such restraint in speech, turns to Glenn and adds, "Fucking A," Glenn then pauses, and so does the movie, awaiting a response that will characterize not only The Right Stuffs John Glenn but also The Right Stuff itself. His earlier moralistic preaching forgotten...
...Right Stuff is as good as it makes John Glenn look, and his "that's right, brother," suggests the root of the movie's success. Above all else, The Right Stuff offers an engaging and appealing examination of a brotherhood of men. That these men-the seven chosen for Project Mercury in 1959-more often than not seem like boys only adds to Kaufman's realistic and colorful treatment of Wolfe's book, which in a sense chronicles a man's coming...
...such movies a redirection of sexual drives accents the group's closeness. When faced with a gang war in the streets or a real war in another country, a man doesn't necessarily need a woman in order to come of age. In The Right Stuff, the thrill and danger of flying monopolize the men's attention, a situation one wife not so subtly recognizes. " Punch a hole in the sky." Glennis Yeager (Barbara Hershey) tells husband Chuck (Sam Shepard) before he lowers himself into his cockpit. Yeager sets off and does break a record, and immediately afterwards he allows...
...asked the H.A.A. to censor our creativity; presumably the good dean found the task too repugnant to his own sensibilities. After some impasse the reviewing task passed from 60 Boylston Street headquarters to the field house: Jimmy Cuniff, who handed out the sweats and towels at Dillon, liked our stuff real good. I believe our generation and its alumni survived...
...reasons for the Crimson's loss--which dropped its season record to 4-2-3 and 1-2-1 in the Ivies--are hard to pin down. If the booters were astronauts, you could say they didn't have The Right Stuff against the Tigers...