Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. There's a lot of blood in this raucous, magnificent western directed by Sam Peckinpah, and a good deal of hard-edged poetry as well. The plot-about a bunch of freebooters on the Texican-Mexico border at the turn of the century, the actors are faultless to a man. and the film itself is one of the best of the year...
...Jennie, Martin (5) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (4) 6. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman (6) 7. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (8) 8. The Money Game,'Adam Smith'(10) 9. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (7) 10. My Turn at Bat, Williams
After taking a dirt road across the desert toward Qumran, where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found, the Pikes missed a turn and wound up instead driving down a gray sandstone wadi (dry creek bed). When large rocks kept them from going farther, they tried in vain to turn the car around. Then, ignoring an old desert rule, they abandoned their vehicle to search for help. Two hours later, James Pike could walk no farther. "If we are going to die in the desert," Diane recalled telling him, "I will stay by you." The two napped; then Mrs. Pike...
Mile High at first seems a normal Condon fancy. After growing up in turn-of-the-century New York with a good head for compound interest and the delicate ways in which money and muscle affect politics. Eddie West, the son of an Irish immigrant, brings about Prohibition singlehanded. His reason for doing so is that Prohibition will provide business opportunities. This is instantly understood by "the 18 greediest, the seven most hypocritical and the five wealthiest families in the country." to whom he goes for financing. It is also understood by an elderly and dignified Sicilian, who agrees that...
Masterminding a personal jail break with inane aplomb, he whittles an imitation pistol out of soap and blackens it with shoe polish. The ruse works, and he escapes into a drenching rain with two guards as hostages. He prods them sullenly forward until they turn warily and discover that Allen's pistol hand is a gleaming blob of soap bubbles. And so it goes, with sight gags interspersed with word foolery. The offbeat one-liner is Allen's comic forte, as when he speaks of a girl he was once fond of: "I used to make obscene telephone...