Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line of least resistance, it gets the high ratings and moves the goods. But for many Americans T.V. is the primary source of information, their window to the world. And in fact, no matter what T.V. says, there is a war going on, the worst in America is facing the best, something is going on here that Mayor Daley doesn't understand and that scares him to death. And a country whose official "reality" on T.V. is so at odds with what any kid knows is actually happening is a country gone schizoid...
...came to the South naive and expecting the worst. Like many of the Northern students who trooped down to Dixie last summer, I knew little about the South and less about its black people. Nevertheless, I was sure of my mission and relieved to find an area where right and wrong were so easy to tell apart. Instead of bothering with the increasingly-complex questions of government morality, I could merely go somewhere else and oppose Evil...
...They've met what they considered defeat," said Muskie, "and they're on the threshold of disillusionment. The worst thing we can do is throw cold water on their expectations...
Lucky Devil. By all meteorological reckoning, the worst rainy season in years should have tapered off by now, permitting the sun to steam dry the tangled greenery that stands high and thick over Nigeria's equatorial south. But on the narrow dirt roads leading to Umuahia, the deluge stopped as if to tease, then resumed this week in full force...
...reel by a freakish turn of fate. Disaster can come in many forms: a runaway poodle (The Killing), a cremated coffin (Ocean's 11), or a kid with a photographic memory (The League of Gentlemen). At their best, caper movies can be wry little existential parables; at their worst, they are merely two hours of closeups on nervous thieves and unyielding safe dials...