Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to bring about a new type of politics one must do more than mouth vague generalities, one must seize the decision-making process and consciously change it. In some states that means building up--precinct by precinct--an organization in order to wrest control. Then turn around and render it useless by changing the state election laws to permit open primaries in the place of party nominating conventions...
...comedy, and Watts ain't funny." Another Negro widow, played by Gail Fisher, will be a regular on the old private-eye series Mannix (CBS). A pair of new ABC adventure programs feature balanced tickets as well. The Mod Squad boasts three troublemaking dropouts who turn fuzz: one hip white chick (Peggy Lipton), one rebellious rich white boy (Michael Cole), and one ghetto black (Clarence Williams III). And The Outcasts are an odd couple of bounty hunters in the post-Civil War West. Don Murray plays a former slaveholder; Otis Young is a former slave. For viewers with more...
...last week brought Ashe a wealth of prestige, but Tom Okker took home the first-prize money of $14,000. Classified as a "registered" player in The Netherlands, Okker could opt for either expenses or prize money. The U.S. has no such classification, which is why Ashe may well turn pro when he gets out of the Army next February; there are rumors that he already has been offered a $100,000 contract. In the meantime, he is looking ahead to December's Davis Cup Challenge Round in Australia, when he hopes to help take back the cup that...
...Ravi Shankar with a definite air of passive insistence, "in the United States people are too much used to things being sold, to publicity. Something comes in the air - a yoyo, Tiny Tim, Nehru shirts, transcendentalism - and people go all out for it. When there is something else, they turn their face. It hurts me to see people being so fickle...
Emulating such meticulous metaphysicians of suspense as Graham Greene and John Le Carré, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes tried to turn a routine story about the last personal and professional adventures of a gentleman robber into an existential parable. Sadly, the material is too airy to bear the weight of Forbes' meaningful silences and rambunctious camerawork. The arch dialogue is genuine tin (exhausted heroine to Caine: "Have you done it very often in strange rooms with girls who have husbands?"). In the best anti-hero tradition, Caine dies by bungling his last job, losing the girl and getting shot...