Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is one English word Mario has never been able to understand. In Phoenix, while he was practicing for last week's U.S.A.C.'s Jimmy Bryan 150-mile race, his car went out of control and hit the wall at 130 m.p.h.; Andretti walked away from the wreck with minor bruises. Next day he cracked up again; this time he did not even have a bruise to show for it. "Oh. I've turned over a couple of times, and I've been against the wall," he says. "But I've never even broken...
...wait to settle matters of finance, compensation or legal liability." Now that the crisis is abating, he continued, "the government is urgently considering the question of claims." Britain, said the Prime Minister, intends to sue the Union Oil Co. of California for damages due to the wreck of its supertanker. If the suit ever gets to court, it will further complicate what is fast becoming not only the most costly maritime accident in history but also the most complex...
Henry has an infallible touch for ruining whatever he comes near. Even his own little boy becomes a psychotic Oedipus wreck. Sin-burned by Henry's faults, his wife (Jane Fonda) leaves him, heading to the Menninger Clinic with their maimed son. Impotent with rage, Henry dynamites his cousin's farm, accidentally killing one of Rad's boys. Rad and Reeve combine to rebuild the land-a union of black and white that seems grey and unconvincing...
...they concede that their majority is in danger. If the latest public opinion polls are any guide, France's next Assembly may be split fairly evenly between Gaullist and leftist Deputies, with the Center Catholics of Lecanuet holding the balance of power. Such an alignment would almost certainly wreck whatever chances Pompidou has of eventually taking over from De Gaulle. But it could also force De Gaulle to soften his anti-U.S. stand in the interest of a working agreement with the Center...
...film's final scene, the question is put again with inquisitorial ferocity. Reunited with his wife at last, the hero finds her a middle-aged ruin, with skin like cracked mud and a rapist's baby in her arms. In her eyes he sees the wreck that horror and hardship have made of him. At that instant, a newsman arrives to take a picture of them. "Everybody smile!" the photographer hollers with a snarling cheeriness that the horrified hero sees as a caricature of his own mindless optimism. "Keep smiling! Keep smiling...