Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When a truth grows old, it becomes a clich.è When a clichè grows old, it becomes a theme for a socially "significant" movie. In The Man with the Balloons, the clichè is man's diminution in an increasingly mechanistic society...
...loyal slaves. They bitterly question the mise en scene that depicts most slaves as complaisant plantation Sambos; on the contrary, say the critics, the slaves were constantly plotting insurrections. Finally, they complain that Styron in effect emasculated Turner by portraying him as a celibate harboring onanistic fantasies, whereas the truth, according to Styron's critics, is that Turner was the husband of a black woman on a nearby plantation...
Asked which other groups he respected he said he respected everybody. "If I could I would have the radio on all day." He was bitter about gimmickry (the Jeff Beck Group's first album just out on Epic, is called 'Truth' because the Group feels that it is an honest album with no tricks.) He ridiculed the Beatles' experiments with sitar music "You know how long it takes to learn that instrument? 7 years. and there's the master who's 50 and still learning...
...Malmgren, is Miller's original defender; though he has disqualified himself, his office still wants another trial. Whether or not Miller, who is now a Chicago busboy, ever returns to court, the Illinois Bar committee seems to be saying that, while a witness is required to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," no such restrictions apply to prosecutors bent on winning a conviction...
...play golf by hitting "horse apples" with a sawed-off broomstick in a hayfield, who labored for $30 a week as a teaching pro until-hey, presto!-he won the U.S. Open and found fame and fortune. "Well," sighs Lee Buck Trevino, 28, "I used to tell sportswriters the truth, but they would just print what they wanted to, anyway. Now if they want to say something, I just let them...