Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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First, there was Ronald Hughes, 35, who had casually met Manson a year earlier. A onetime conservative turned hippie, Hughes had flunked the bar exam three times before passing, and had never tried a case. Manson took him on after he agreed to grow a beard. Now the amiable Hughes...
Although it is easy to recognize and describe a new political or cultural stage after it has occurred, few, if any, analysts have a good record in predicting the beginning and end of these cycles. I know no one, whether left, right, or center, in his politics, who anticipated the...
BESIDES ITS laughable melodramatic contrivance, the most glaring flaws of the film grow out of its unconvincing psychology. Sarah is an American ideal: unquestionably believing in her lover's dreams, she gives her life completely over to him. Danny is, as Sarah's father derisively claims, a middle-class Jesus...
Even the worst shows are occasionally capable of entertainmentand even enlightenment. "Besides," says a major Hollywood packager, "it's not fair to compare commercial programming and Sesame Street. Give me $8,000,000, and I can come up with educational programming too." But ABC's Chuck Jones sees Sesame...
Core of Passion. Under its suavely British surface, Sleuth contains some bitterly anti-British sentiments. The celebrated games-playing vocabulary of the Englishwith terms like fair play and a sporting chanceis cant in Shaffer's view. It masks some bloody-minded bigotry and is no...