Word: americans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have heard similar, though smaller reports from returned servicemen-not rabid peaceniks but "average American boys" who defend their sickening conduct. I have done nothing about these accounts, and God knows what my guilt is. Am I the only...
...itinerant faith healer, Rocky has read the book on corruption and added footnotes of his own. Disgusted at what people-including himself-will do for money, he articulates the film's message: "There can only be one winner, folks, but isn't that the American...
Still, as a footnote to American history, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is invaluable. The entire cast-particularly Young and Fonda-understands the era when existence seemed one long bread line. The penciled eyebrows, marcelled coiffures and bright, hopeful faces change by degrees into ghastly masks; the bodies seem to pull against a gravity that wants them six feet underground. The music goes round and round, and so do the actors, in a coruscating dance of death. It is a pity that the picture is not left to them. The film makers should have known better than...
...Force of Evil, in 1948. An ode to gangsterism and individual morality, it passed almost unnoticed on initial release. As a lifelong proponent of the sort of radical politics frowned upon during the witch hunts of the 1940s, Polonsky did not long escape the scrutiny of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Bludgeoned by the Hollywood blacklist, Polonsky did not work under his own name again for almost 20 years. Polonsky, now 59, kept alive by writing TV scripts under pseudonyms and accepting an occasional anonymous movie rewrite. Willie Boy is only the second film he has directed...
...American Heritage Dictionary...