Word: uprightness
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...they should drive men into quite such acute frenzies of greed are matters that the film makers have chosen to keep pretty much to themselves. Giddy fun, usually provided by such matinee fodder, is also in short supply. The star is Joe Don Baker, a sort of upright Francis the Talking Mule, who appeared in Walking Tall wielding a baseball bat and busting heads. Here, as a Hong Kong soldier-of-fortune, he betrays an enthusiasm for breaking glass, either by shattering windshields with a two-by-four or hurling people through skylights. He performs all these feats with...
...great consternation brought about in Continental society by the appearance of Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd), a rich American girl touring Europe with her mother (Cloris Leachman) and bratty little brother (James McMurtry). Daisy flirts openly with a gaudy Italian opportunist, causing something of a scandal, while teasing an upright young American expatriate named Winterbourne (Barry Brown). The latter observes, with a mixture of melancholy and enchantment, her flouting of convention, and feels drawn to her. Daisy eventually catches "the Roman fever" late at night in the Colosseum, and dies of the figurative effects of culture shock...
...Bridgeman, a graduate student. It is being made into a film to be shown at the Carpenter Center screening of student films sometime in May, and it is worth seeing. The theme of sanity is an old favorite, all too often overdone as a loosing struggle between an upright mind and its gloomy, evil oppressors. In this piece the heaviness is ingeniously avoided: Bridgeman, the man/mind, stands well over six feet tall, while the harbingers of insanity, Laurie Selz and Lisa Myerson in green Geotards and painted faces, are not much more than five feet tall. Innocently he plays with...
...flat on his back most of the time, staring despondently at the ceiling, receiving few people. His political career seemed as shattered as his spine from the bullets of Arthur Bremer. This month Wallace once again attended the annual Governors Conference, but he was a rejuvenated man: he sat upright in his wheelchair, attentively following the proceedings and obviously basking in his celebrity status. His career has recovered along with his body and spirit...
...ideal ruler of benevolence, moderation and humanity, a type that he believed had existed in a halcyon era long past. While the bad ruler relied on terror and force, the Confucian prince would restore order simply by the strength of his moral example. "If a ruler himself is upright," Confucius taught, "then all will go well without commands...