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...intolerable is 'intolerable.' " That question would apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset from a Los Angeles freeway-refracted through smog and windshield-Los Angeles Times Columnist Jack Smith wondered what a man from an earlier century might have felt if he had sat beside him in the automobile: "A rational man, like Dr. Johnson, must surely see that the species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THANKSGIVING 1968: MIXED BLESSINGS | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Beginning his football career as an offensive tight end as well as a defensive end, he was named to the third All-State team on defense his senior year at Sunset High School in Portland, Ore., where he lettered in track and basketball, in addition to football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramer Develops All-League Potential At End for Crimson's Defensive Team | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

...repeatedly interrupted trip, which lasts for the rest of the movie, wrecked autos, hideously dismembered bodies and senseless violence meet them at every turn. There are a few irrelevant respites, such as a Mozart sonata on the sound track while the camera pans around a farm at sunset, and a couple of overlong political harangues on black revolution and the war in the Mid dle East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road and off it-that everyone begins to take as a matter of course. The distracted hus band does not even bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Society as a Slaughterhouse | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...have to leave and find another place by ourselves," said Deloros, who confessed that she left the village mayor's office in tears of rage after a meeting on the urban renewal project. (The developer commented that he would try to find a new location for the Sunset, but that the law did not require him to do so.) "If you asked the people around here, they'd tell you that they don't want us to leave," Deloros said. "We're not opposed to the new housing and all but we think they ought to take the wishes...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Long Island Sunset | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...juke box began to play James Brown and a teenaged girl who had been sitting at the end of the bar danced a couple of steps as she walked out. It was becoming hard to hear, but Deloros meditated out loud for a moment on the Sunset's future: "You take the people's pleasures away from them and then you have violence. Nobody wants violence." She paused and her gaze roamed over the rows of liquor bottles behind the bar, coming to rest on fresh pictures of John and Robert Kennedy on either side of Martin Luther King...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Long Island Sunset | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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