Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reds. Could have been "Warren's Gate." Instead, Writer-Director-Producer-Star Beatty fashioned a biography of Radical Journalist John Reed into a love story that evokes laughter, tears, thoughtfulness, astonishment...
...years Chief Justice Warren Burger has been pleading for prison programs that would help turn the myth of rehabilitation into reality. In a speech last week at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, he offered his latest vision of tomorrow's prisons: "Factories with fences around them." Inmates would turn out an array of goods for "reasonable compensation"; a fair amount would be deducted for room and board and the released workers eventually would take their places as more productive members of society. His plan, he said, has special urgency because the nation is expected to spend...
Most of the press attention centered on Ehrlichman's claim that Chief Justice Warren Burger "on several occasions" attended White House meetings at which "Nixon, [Attorney General John] Mitchell and I openly discussed with the Chief Justice the pros and cons of issues before the court." The topics, contends Ehrlichman, included school busing at a time when the issue was about to come before the Supreme Court. While Nixon apparently stressed his antibusing views to Burger, the Chief Justice clearly was not swayed. He ended up writing a pro-busing opinion in the North Carolina case then pending. Still...
...distracting the audience with small matters like a revolutionary war. This is an epic without scope: intelligent, ironic, and ultimately unambitious, despite the $30-million price tag and a nation of Finnish extras. And it perfectly reflects the interests and temperament of its director, co-scenarist and star, Warren Beatty...
...finds two Soviets in every Latin American garage and a Libyan in every pot, maybe a film about two lovely, decent people who also happen to be Marxists will restore some balance. Perhaps this is as much as we can realistically hope for from a mainstream Hollywood film by Warren Beatty. At least it points in the right (left) direction and makes having a social conscience fashionable again. But fashion is fickle, and Reds' underlying conservatism and drippy romanticism are hardly what we need now. Burn the armchairs...