Word: commitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even list them) Hitchcock came up with this solid, funny, return to the theme which has obsessed him since the beginning of his 53 film career. Blackmail (1929) the first British talkie, dealt with the problem of an innocent man suspected of a murder he, of course, did not commit. Frenzy too, has a nabbed innocent--only by 1973 the crimes shown had grown more lurid and gruesome: rape and strangling (with neckties). Hitchcock seems to be leaning more and more to overt comedy in his second half-century of film directing; the gourmet scenes in Frenzy will make...
...little single-minded." Eisenhower contends that he "kept waiting for Mr. Nixon to crack" and he did not, but that the book portrays Nixon "as a kind of broken man-emotionally and mentally and every other way. He wasn't." Eisenhower denies that he ever feared Nixon might commit suicide, as the book reported. "I never felt that," he insists. "He was fundamentally a religious man, and he simply would not have done that...
Fein, an advocate of a national health insurance plan, said he thinks it is more important for him to promote this idea than to commit himself formally as an advisor to a single candidate...
...some ways she took it a good deal better than her lawyers." So said Albert Johnson, a leading member of Patty Hearst's defense team last week, after the 22-year-old publishing heiress was found guilty of armed bank robbery and use of a firearm to commit a felony. The prisoner had visits from her parents and spent several hours talking to probation officers who will issue recommendations on her sentence. The rest of the week she read, watched TV and ate her meals with other inmates. Though she could draw as much as 35 years in prison...
...depended less on college humor and parodies of old '40s movies. However, Going Ape is truly zany. The hero, Rupert Yaeggi (Dennis Michaels), is a kind of Candide in reverse. He has decided that this is the worst of all possible worlds, and he has opted to commit suicide...