Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is evidence that she lives a great deal in her imagination. She goes to a drive-in to think. Her first purchase when the six-figure movie and paperback money began coming in was a commodious secondhand station wagon: "For years I'd watched drive-in movies from a lawn chair while the girls sat in the Volkswagen. It was either that or scrunch up in back like Charles Laughton on top of Notre Dame." Even her speech shows certain dramatic cadences. Describing her research in children's books, she intones: "There did Marilyn Durham learn what...
...corpses of ARVN soldiers and the unfortunate civilians who had hitched a ride in the military vehicles. The area, reported TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, was "hauntingly quiet except for the occasional report of artillery in the distance. It was like stumbling on the site of a burned-out massacred wagon train left in a remote Wyoming valley...
...peak level of 101 cars an hour. Ford's Pinto is the speediest seller of all: 175,000 in the first five months of 1972 v. 131,000 in the same period of 1971. Pinto benefited especially from the introduction early this year of a mini-station wagon that resembles Ford's successful full-sized Country Squire. One auto industry wit unsuccessfully suggested to Ford executives that the Pinto wagon be named the "Country Squirt...
...good idea, at least in theory, but it goes wrong here because of Mulligan's persistent habit of sentimentalizing every image, making each look like a picture on an antique candy box. He lavishes as much attention on an old ice wagon or a pitcher of lemonade as he does on a pivotal act of malevolence. The result is rather like trying to read an H.P. Lovecraft story printed inside a lacy valentine...
Buck and the Preacher is the best of this bad lot. Directed by and co-starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun. Poitier plays Buck, a guide whose job is to get wagon trains of poor blacks through the terrors of testy Indians and the sudden, brutal raids of freebooters hired to steer the wagons back to Louisiana, where the blacks are needed on the farms. Much to his chagrin, Buck is abetted by a smarmy and slightly balmy preacher (Harry Belafonte) who has a fine...