Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russ Meyer, the Barnum of the skin-flicks,has recently been grinding out his sexploitation films under the imprimatur of major studios. He now follows the thunderous vulgarity of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with a tepid adaptation of Irving Wallace's best-seller about an obscenity bust, The Seven Minutes...
...star quality-the word charisma keeps recurring-Lindsay in the long run seems an elegant addition to the progressive wing of the Democrats. More immediately he presents unwanted problems. Obviously the announced and unannounced presidential candidates do not welcome competition, and their greetings last week ranged from tepid to frosty. South Dakota's Senator George McGovern unkindly recalled the Agnew nominating speech. Washington's Senator Henry Jackson declared: "If you join the church one Sunday, you can't expect to be chairman of the board of deacons the next Sunday...
...while across the bay is Sea World, an aquarium aswarm with tourists and back-dropped by San Diego's busy Lindbergh International Field. Inside the camp's palisades, the pace is equally lively. Cars roll endlessly along the asphalt alleys while children splash in the tepid water...
...eyes open to the well-intentioned disaster that is her life, Jones allows her the stature and tragic privileges of a minor Jocasta. She is not only more to be pitied but more to be admired than her old friends, whose embrace of social justice is tepid with opportunism. It is also made evident that the doctrinaire liberals from the North are as blindly rigid...
...miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlom." Abandoned by his fair-weather friends and sunshine press agents, King did discover a way to get his message across and help lead black people, who had at best been tepid about the antiwar movement, into the protest. He reestablished his credibility with black people by going back on the streets of Chicago, and later, the backroads of Mississippi during the Meredith March, and retaking his position on the point...