Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle gorge began to rise. "I'm getting," he says of Opponent Joe Clark, "so I hate that guy's guts." Chugging around in his Ford station wagon, Duff has covered some 6,000 miles in his campaign, plans another 10,000 before Nov. 6. ("Damn, I've never done anything like this before.") To Jim Duff, the biggest issue in the 1956 elections is peace. "For anyone to think that Stevenson could replace Eisenhower as the keeper of the peace," he tells his audiences, "is fantastic beyond the dreams of imagination...
...into. As in life, what happens is not so important as how it happens, and thanks to Director Stevens' precise and sensitive control of the whole production -script and setting, color and sound, camera and actor-almost every moment in this movie happens with the sort of one-damn-thing-after-anotherness that carries a conviction of reality. The actors, for example, are amazingly well behaved. Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, neither of whom has been widely hailed as an outstanding acting talent, keep thoroughly in character throughout long and difficult roles. In a shorter part, Mercedes McCambridge plays...
...girls and cabarets and the rest on a sloe-eyed model whom he set up as mistress of her own bar. Admitting that "perhaps some priests have become a bit too worldly," the abbot of Zen Daitokuji Temple insisted nevertheless that one bad priest should not be used to damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing the mayor on any count, promptly joined the fray with a sound truck that blared out the charge that Takayama was "persecuting religion." With their most pious mien, the priests thereupon barred...
...speech came when he noted the high price of food and asked who got the profit. "Does the small grocer get the profit?" "NO!" cried the audience. "Does the farmer get the profit?" "NO!" "Then the question is, who gets the profit." My friend said, "That's a pretty damn good question...
...considerably worse. The opening selections from James Chace's novel have more than one grave deficiency. The primary problem is that, as in so many Advocate stories, the reader, when finished, is hard put to attach any significance to his recent adventure. Emotionally, he does not give a damn, and intellectually he is either somnolent or at loose ends. It is perhaps not necessary that prose have a point, but it seems reasonable to demand that it achieve an effect, as Ratte does in the "Lawrison" piece. It also seems reasonable to require that in a piece about two people...