Word: weathermen
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This is perhaps not the most natural strategy for a film that painstakingly documents the mindset that drove formerly-peaceful activists to adopt a philosophy of violence as the Vietnam War spiraled out of control. The students who made up the Weathermen, later the Weather Underground, chose to express their objections to what they saw as an unjust, needlessly-murderous war with a series of domestic bombings throughout the 1970s on targets including the U.S. Capitol and Harvard’s Center for International Affairs...
Even after getting former Weathermen to speak with him on camera, Green says the interviews were far from easy...
Once he had secured funding and coaxed the former Weathermen into opening up to the camera, Green still faced the challenge of putting their actions in context...
...sport, is of course that it confounds all expectations and offers happy endings (sometimes daily) not available in life. It serves as an outlet for our pent-up feelings and an escape from a world in which the promises of governments and businessmen are as reliable as those of weathermen. In Japan, where economic depression has been so sustained that people have turned to the antic Tamil films of southern India for some imported lunacy and energy, baseball has long been a secular religion, with the attendant promise of catechisms and rituals that never change. The fact that most...
...novel, Cantor depicts an incident in which Beth’s comrades accidentally detonate an explosive within their own headquarters in New York, resulting in the death of many Weathermen. In reality, March 1970 saw the explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse in which members of the group were killed...