Word: swear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bonnie and Clyde. No one believes me when I swear I saw a black and white print of this once, but it's true, and it looked amazing, like Walker Evans stuff. Arthur Penn directed, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles...
...White House last week they were most worried that all the swear words that Nixon used would upset a lot of Americans who thought he rarely cussed. That concern is really almost meaningless in the current context. What produces despair is that men given the responsibility for doing so much for this nation would spend so much time and energy contemplating the violation of that trust...
...Canada and you'll be told a few tongue-in-cheek stories. Even when they're drinking, the big men with the big-checked flannel shirts know pretty much where the truth stops and the fables begin. Nobody believes in The Blue Ox. Yet a lot of lumberjacks will swear by the existence of a giant humanoid standing close to ten feet tall and weighing up to 1000 pounds, called "Bigfoot" in California and the Pacific Northwest and "Sasquatch" in British Columbia...
...frustration and a certain embarrassment, they have to bust whoever is without influence, people they would probably just as soon leave alone-whores or some gays trying to have a good time in a bar. It is only when they swear vengeance on a porcine vice lord and pusher (Allen Garfield) that things really begin to come down on them...
...what are these men really teaching him? They teach him their own brand of stealing, yet now it's the illicit fun of male camaraderie--teaching him to drink, to swear, to rent women. The movie sees that these lessons are the lessons of the adolescent male, being fourteen and yelling "fuck" at the top of your lungs, glorying at the mysterious defiance of it. This is all the older men have to teach. For all their tatoos, the Navy has them in a state of arrested development. They've been to Vietnam but they've children, lost...