Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOUGLAS TUCKER, INFORMATION OFFICER, SAID THE CHARGE WAS BROUGHT FRIDAY AGAINST 15T LT. WILLIAM L. CALLEY JR., 26, OF MIAMI, FLA., A TWO-YEAR VETERAN WHO WAS TO HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED FROM THE SERVICE SATURDAY...
...consider the conflict that forms the basis for Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker's new film, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice: Who is right? Liberated Bob and Carol or conventional Ted and Alice? Need I tell you? (Hint: This movie was made in Hollywood, of and by and for Americans...
...that simple. The conflict in this movie isn't that simple because Bob and Carol are hip (?) and Ted and Alice are square (!) Right?! Of course, right. From the very beginning. in that Hollywood fashion we all love and adore, writer-producer Tucker and writer-director Mazursky have stacked the cards against Bob and Carol. They do this by making Bob and Carol not so much liberated as pseudo-liberated. Bob and Carol think they are hip, but as the audience happily discovers, they are actually phonies and assholes. Robert Culp is a middle-aged Peter Fonda who wears beads...
With Bob and Carol as their spiritual advisers, however, it is only natural that they should end up with their middle-class values intact. The only possibility Tucker and Maszurky give Ted and Alice to consider is Southern California's Rolls-Royce variety of bohemia. And for that reason, the movie is a cop-out; the supposed Bob and Carol versus Ted and Alice conflict does not exist as Bob and Carol are paper tigers; it is all, so to speak, philosophically shitty...
...unions paraded before the committee to attack Judge Haynsworth's record on integration and labor-management cases. William Pollock, general president of the Textile Workers Union of America, said that Haynsworth was part of a "conspiracy." The aim, said Pollock, was to limit the rights of workers. Samuel Tucker of the N.A.A.C.P. blasted Haynsworth's "persistent hostility" to the Constitution's promise of racial equality. Eight of the House of Representatives' nine Negro members endorsed a statement opposing confirmation. They said it would "unequivocally tell black people that the one significant route for peaceful resolution...