Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gary Cooper, matched with sexy, strong-willed Hawksian discoveries such as Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Carole Lombard and Jane Russell. When French cineasts made a cult of the tall, quiet director, claiming for example that he "incarnates the classic American cinema," Hawks commented: "I get open-mouthed and wonder where they find some of the stuff they say about me. All I'm doing is telling a story...
...political divisions and tensions. But Frenchmen are all too aware of the potential dangers that lie ahead. As the mood of impending crisis began to spread and darken last week, the newspaper "Le Figaro" counseled courage and moderation: "Let us stop hating and stop being afraid."But one must wonder, given the current political atmosphere, whether the French are willing, or able, to follow this advice...
Joel turns to a bit of R&B in the tradition of Stevie Wonder with "Get it Right the First Time," using a flute to accentuate a strong piano line. His catchy refrain is almost a direct outtake from the first two lines of Wonder's "Another Star...
...consider that, from the aliens' point of view, we are inferior creatures. Just think what we do to our guinea pigs and chimpanzees. When the aliens courteously return--without a scratch on them--all the human specimens that they had kidnapped in order to examine, it makes you wonder what we did to deserve such good neighbors. Close Encounters is as optimistic as War Between The Worlds was pessimistic, although, admittedly, reality is difficult to express in a movie about things from other plxnets...
Recent revelations about the extent to which the CIA has controlled foreign press and correspondents has led us to wonder whether there is really a world out there at all. Since most American correspondents overseas rely for their information on a) the CIA, and b) foreign newspapers, and since the CIA seems to have owned a fair number of papers overseas, isn't it possible that nothing you think has happened overseas really has? Perhaps it was all made up by some megalomaniacal CIA official sitting in Washington...