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...suppose if you wanted to pin down any single recent trend in American films, it would have to be romanticism, or more bluntly, escapism. Ragtime and Reds recall the times of horse-drawn fire engines and "high society', when reform and idealism weren't laughable pursuits, and you could fall in love without analyzing it first. The social messages of these movies have been dwarfed by their length, intricate period settings, and romances. Yet the only alternatives contain no message at all: norror, comedy, and adventure all start from the proposition "what if..."/ and ask that you leave the real...
...outdoor privies throughout the South. Hopkins hired actors to give free shows and librarians to catalogue archives. To someone who criticized such largesse for intellectuals, Hopkins answered: "Hell, they've got to eat just like other people." He even paid researchers to study the history of the safety pin and hired 100 Washington workers to patrol the streets with balloons to frighten starlings away from public buildings. Soon the language of politics acquired a new word: boondoggle...
...game: pin the head on the Hearst editor
...Springfield meet was highlighted by the individual performances of two strong freshmen, Barry Bausano and Sean Wallace. Bausano, wrestling at 167 pounds, destroyed Pat Allen, scoring a pin at 1:53 of the second period. Demonstrating a smooth and fluid technique, Bausano scored saeveral takedowns and near-falls on his way to the pin...
...only excitement in these matches was the intra-squad competition for the fastest pin, as the grapplers totally dominated their intimidated opponents...