Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...routine shift of three top-level military commands, Jones, 56, and the Air Force won an unexpected victory by gaining the two-year appointment to the nation's highest uniformed post at a time when traditional rotation policy would have turned it over to the Army. Jones will succeed another Air Force general, the controversial and talkative George S. Brown, on July 1. That is when Brown, who is ill with cancer of the prostate will complete his second term...
...bloody racial confrontation is what we are all battling to avoid, and I believe deep in my heart that we can succeed. It is clear that my own people will not be satisfied with crumbs from the tables of the privileged classes. They will want full participation in the decision-making processes of their country. There is, however, the temptation in the minds of many people to believe that the situation is so hopeless that violence is inevitable. We must resist this view with all our might. We must refuse to surrender to this sense of hopelessness...
Malle tries to make the movie's flavor pass for substance by rilling the film with portentous zoom shots, but the ruse does not succeed. The cast does not do much to flesh out the material either. Be sides having no resemblance to the real Bellocq, Carradine rarely gets a handle on the mysterious photographer-hero. With his sepulchral demeanor, he looks less like an obsessed artist than a constipated undertaker. Sarandon, sputtering like a road-show Tennessee Williams heroine, never creates a credible character. Nor does Singer Frances Faye, playing an ancient madam who does an obligatory...
...wisecracking but adorable divorcee who wants to find a monogamous man and live happily ever after. House Calls is the story of this odd couple's on-again, off-again, on-again romance, and it wants very much to be a Neil Simon comedy. It doesn't succeed, but there are times when this amiable film could pass as a Plaza Suite, or even a Chapter Two, clone...
...sure of his constituency. When he sang, he sang "This is what I believe..." As time goes on, he writes more songs about himself, about the rebels of America, the Jacksons and Carters, the Jacks of Hearts, individuals above all else. It is obvious Dylan wanted this movie to succeed very much. That's understandable; what else do middle-aged rock stars do? Renaldo and Clara is a failure, and not a heroic failure but a cheap one. Dylan has fractured himself even further, until finally it consists of only himself, or maybe just himself and the strange leather-jacketed...