Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title tells it all. Live for Life has the air of a home movie all about The Fun Times We Had--watching a boxing match, chasing wild animals in Africa, skiing in the Alps--with something of a story thrown in for free...
...story comes in spurts, with snatches of documentaries thrown in at random. Robert (Yves Montand), the hero, spends most of his time wandering around the world making television documentaries. Admittedly, Robert is not a bad television documentary producer, but the horrors of Vietnam are not relevant to the love story that should be the core of the film. One can only assume that these sequences are thrown in as Contrast, but the contrast is too great to have any meaning to the audience. Half the time you are watching a French Flick, and the other half you are watching...
...northern Laos, two Communist battalions struck last week at government positions north of the royal capital of Luangprabang, having taken the strategic valley of Nam Bac in January. In central Laos, two battalions of mixed North Vietnamese and local Communist Pathet Lao forces were thrown back just outside Thakhek on the border of northeast Thailand-a threat so close to home that Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman warned Hanoi that the Thais might have to take direct action to aid Laos. Worst of all is the situation in southern Laos, where North Vietnamese forces have cut road links, launched mortar...
Even more serious, in the long run, is Russia's shortage of facilities for leisure, such as bowling alleys and coffeehouses. Pravda somewhat lamely exhorted the growing number of bored workers, who tend to get on each other's nerves when thrown together for two days, to "mobilize their own inventiveness." So far, much of the leisure has been liquid. According to an article in Literaturnaya Gazeta, the first effect of the new work week was a 25% jump in Moscow vodka sales...
...hesitates to label such an unpromising campaign "opportunistic." Kennedy is, after all, risking everything in a year when he might risk next to nothing. He has thrown in with the Democratic Party's bastard wing, not even sure they will accept him. If he has miscalculated, it is not so much out of opportunism as out of conviction: the conviction that Robert Kennedy has what it takes in this banner year of American political history. Given the alternatives, Kennedy's conviction is a tempting...