Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep-seated and far-reaching conspiracy which has as its aim the capturing of the very government of the city itself." Although Harvard did not deign to counter this charge, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the resolution turned out to have been only a publicly stunt designed by one of the councillors to pigeonhole other legislation before the Council...
...afraid perhaps of being implicitly bound by the outcome, has refused to sponsor the poll, though it does not object to the vote's taking place. The political organizations, such as SDS, are understandably reluctant to organize the referendum, fearing students will construe the whole thing as a propaganda stunt. This leaves the Harvard Undergraduate Council, which is politically neutral, independent of official Harvard, and experienced in matters of this sort. The HUC should move immediately to execute the mandate of this week's petition...
...counter-exam, however, may have alienated a good number of moderates who felt that evidence produced was a little too devastating and could be dismissed as one more propaganda stunt. The exam probably would have attracted more sympathizes had it exercised a little more restraint and limited itself to factual questions, but the results would have been a good deal less dramatic. If it over-dramatizes differences, the test is just one more example of the polarization of opinion which results from a fundamental liberal-conservative split over the question...
Director Reisz sustains the free-flowing tone with cinematic stunt work. He freezes the action, speeds it up, reveals the texture of Morgan's fancies by inserting film clips of Tarzan and of the original King Kong roaring approval at Fay Wray. The film's funniest scenes, though, are the earthy encounters between Morgan and his dear Ma (Irene Handl), a dotty old Red square who refuses to destalinize and can't imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal...
Unfortunately this plot can't be amplified or varied enough to sustain interest more than about fifteen minutes. Watching Victim is like trying to watch daytime TV stunt shows for a week...