Word: sup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another Boycott. At the heart of Chavez's weakness is a changed public attitude toward him and his crusade for the Chicano farm workers. In the late 1960s, la causa not only won the sup port of most Mexican Americans, but it also became a favorite issue among believers in good works. Urged on by national figures like Senator Robert F. Kennedy, conscience-troubled housewives across the country boycotted grapes - and pressured growers into negotiating contracts with the U.F.W. But now, the public seems to have grown tired of causes. Today, few housewives even know that Chavez has called...
...continuing, rather paranoid hunt for secret plots or motives behind Ag new's sudden legal difficulties, his sup porters have advanced the notion that Richardson may be the culprit: to wreck Agnew's presidential hopes and further his own chance for the G.O.P. nomi nation in 1976. Last week the chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Di vision, Henry E. Petersen, drove to Baltimore to inspect the evidence against Agnew collected by Beall and his three assistants, Barnet D. Skolnik, Russell T. Baker Jr. and Ronald S. Liebman...
...steady transfusions of alcohol, a spicy diet of youthcult flicks and, in desperate moments, mouth-to-mouth sessions with a girl reporter. Craig also broods about his past (he has been an s.o.b. to a lot of little people) and agonizes over his future. His soul-searching is sup ported by a pulpy cast that includes his own Antonioni-bred daughter, his Irish agent, an embittered ex-screenwriter, an aging movie mogul, several leering French waiters and - since this is Cannes - a falling-down-drunk film critic...
...generally seen on TV urgently requiring an Alka-Seltzer. This may be the reason why every candy bar, every can of beer or other easily identifiable product is conscientiously wrapped in brown paper or covered with a phoney label. Zieff must have worried that any time one of the sup porting cast picked up a prop, Slither might look like a commercial...
...many Christians, the Van Greenaway Judas will not only seem bizarre but blasphemous: in the Judas gos pel, it is Judas, for instance, who utters (in a somewhat different context) the Eucharistic formula for the Last Sup per. Yet Van Greenaway's anticlericalism is usually witty, and only occasion ally foolish...