Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember one student council being torn down with popular approval when its President, a conservative "Goldwater" Republican, used his position to imply a general conservative swing among Harvard undergraduates. I remember another council disappearing when House Committees independently seceded. Would you have that freedom in the future under the new plan? I think not. We must retain a way of keeping a council for the benefit of the students, and not just for the political careers of student politicians...
Essentially, however, M.A.S.H. is not an actor's movie. Its furious humor arises from the collaboration of Lardner and Airman, who swing the scenario like a baseball bat. Not infrequently, they shatter the wrong objectives; a parody of the Last Supper, for example, is utterly without wit or point. But most of the time the film is a moon reflecting the sun of battle. War assaults taste, language, sense itself. So do the soldiers who fight it. So do the doctors who aid the soldiers. So does M.A.S.H., animated with a dangerously robust sick humor and a highly civilized...
...several cities offer an endless variety of erotic paraphernalia, and coyly clinical ''sex education" films pack moviehouses. In Hamburg's seamy, mile-square St. Pauli district, whose fleshpots draw 300,000 visitors a month, businessmen who are shy about being spotted on the notorious Reeperbahn can swing into an underground garage, park, choose a fraülein at a discreet Kontakthof (contact court), then take an elevator to one of two six-story, modern sexscrapers named Eros Center and the Palais d'Amour...