Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crier about an old, disowned couple is something of a can't lose proposition from the director's point of view. The performances though, are simply impeccable. There was a stock of oldish actors in Hollywood in the thirties that a studio could draw on to play the ancient, sweet and wise. This picture has two of the best--Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi. Moore especially, hesitant, stuttering and practically irresistible had already cleared a career as one of Broadway's great musical comedy stars (he was the original Alexander Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing) when he made this...
...astride Hondas. Also incredulous are the people of Hanoi, who for 20 years have lived in austerity, when they see in their newspapers pictures of the store windows of Danang. The two parts of Viet Nam are like Sparta and Byzantium; they are like the two ingredients of a sweet and sour sauce, difficult to mix so that it will remain tasty...
Second-decade rockers were dealing in primal screams in 1967 when Roberta Flack came along with her sweet, sensuous voice, an authentic light among trays of crackerjack sparklers. Flack turned The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1972) and Killing Me Softly with His Song (1973) into blockbuster hits. She began collecting her four gold singles and two gold albums. By the end of 1973 she had won a pair of Grammy awards. But one day, glancing at a copy of her album First Take, she realized suddenly that "I could not go through life playing First Time Ever...
...seems well," Shakespeare said, and if it end so meet. The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet...All is well ended of the sprints...
...history of social struggle is a long one-I have already referred to the revolutionary origins of American society. But long before this country was founded, men and women fought against various tyrants and exploders and the same exploiters clothed themselves in sweet sounding pieties and talk of their rights and their privileges, as if they were somehow beyond question. And always those who dare to question or criticize the status quo are called bad names or ostracized or hunted down as criminals. The story is an old one and it goes back to the dawn of history...