Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOFORS GUN. Life in the postwar British army is the subject of this vigorously antimilitary drama. David Warner and Nicol Williamson offer two of the best screen performances of the year...
...varied aspects of the world he has known-from Deep South sharecropper farms to the Harlem neighborhoods, where he spent his youth and later tried his hand at professional songwriting. As a Negro, Bearden insists that there is no particular significance in the fact that so many of his subjects have been Negroes. "My subject is people. They just happen to turn out to be Negro," he says. Still, he pictures them with such special feeling and skill that their portraits have been shown in galleries across the U.S. and Europe; they are in the collections of Princeton University, Atlanta...
...auto accidents, was aimed at two of the policyholders' biggest headaches: soaring premium rates and slow payment of claims. It was advanced at a time when the auto-insurance industry has come under the scrutiny of Congressional investigators and the Department of Transportation. Auto insurance is also the subject of a reform movement at more local levels, where most of the interest centers on a plan, devised by Law Professors Robert Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois, that has been proposed in various forms before the legislatures of ten states...
...inadequately veiled subject is of course the Kennedys (here named Alec and Andrea Girard) and the people around them during their brief years in Washington. The story picks up round about 1960 and inches through the primaries and the election, breeding along the way several sluggish subplots. At some indeterminate date, the book leaves what may for simplicity's sake be called historical fact and concentrates on 1) the tragic illness (leukemia) of the President's little daughter, 2) the marital difficulties of one of the invented characters, and 3) a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. There...
...shouts, pausing to test each other's memory of obscure verses. It is only speculation, but perhaps in the end they were held together by their refusal to become the mute weighers of evidence that a proprietous respect for their profession demanded they be. They never pretend that the subject matter can speak for itself. "A work of history," Heimert says, "takes its coherence from the artistic skill of the author." When they write about the past, longing to become an age, they are creating themselves and history at the same time...