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Word: westerns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous films this year (The Stalking Moon and MacKenna's Gold), Peck was saddled with period western costume. In The Chairman he is restored to mufti as John Hathaway, Nobel-prizewinning chemist, professor and all-round chump. Hathaway allows the combined intelligence forces to se crete an aspirin-sized transmitter in his head. He is blissfully unaware that the capsule also contains an explosive that can be triggered back at headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Chained to an Enzyme | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

With Zero Mostel, and a wildly improbable storyline, The Great Bank Robbery seems all set to snipe away at an inviting target-the standard western heist. Unfortunately, amid leathery gags and uninspired parody, the guns jam early and often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tunneling to Nowhere | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...remarks of herself at the outset: "Sister Lyda's ass is draggin." Indeed, she bestirs herself only for the strategic seduction of Clint Walker, who has no trouble at all playing an oafish, one-dimensional Ranger. Despite The Great Bank Robbery's pretentious effort, the genuinely amusing western remains an elusive specimen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tunneling to Nowhere | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

There is a fine Gallic impudence to the notion: take Robinson Crusoe, that age-of-reason parable of Western civilization's triumph over rude nature, and turn it upside down. In this position Crusoe's diligence, rationality, racial pride and Christian ethics-the very qualities that in Defoe's handling ensured Crusoe's survival-get lost while Crusoe accepts the "primitive" values of his black manservant. Call the book Friday to make the irony unmistakable. So much for Western civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caliban and Crusoe II | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...seem to be one more demonstration-and a notably self-conscious and unconvincing one-of a mercantile society's well-known and often belabored shortcomings. Tournier intended some satirical comment on civilization's defects, of course, or why else so pointedly rewrite a tract in which the Western world is praised? What gradually dawns on the surprised reader is that the author has accomplished much more. As a 20th century author, Tournier is concerned with Defoe's implicit but largely unexplored theme, the development of a mind in isolation. With a winning blend of Parisian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caliban and Crusoe II | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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