Word: swope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BERLIN BLOCKADE. The wartime Soviet-American friendship soon hardened into peacetime animosity-the cold war, in the writer Herbert Bayard Swope's coinage-when the Soviet Union organized its postwar system of Eastern European satellite states. The U.S. countered with its Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...Swope Parkway two women on the way to pick up their husbands at the Armco Steel plant took refuge on top of their car. But it overturned after being battered by abandoned floating cars and the torrents of water; one woman was rescued by six men who formed a human chain to pull her to safety, but her sister-in-law drowned. The 23 other dead were found, said one reporter, "all over the place...
Robert Downey's Putney Swope (Ch. 4, 1:00 a.m., Sat.) seemed daring and outrageous when it came out in 1969, at the height of white paranoia about blacks; now, it's just offensive. The censors have undoubtedly cut this one to shreds, so none of the good things you may have heard about this movie are likely to be confirmed...
...Putney Swope. Robert Downey's film has, with age, lost quite a bit of its bite, but it's still entertaining. It was made at a time when blacks were almost universally regarded as fearsome creatures, and derived a good portion of its punch from that premise. A black man becomes the president of a large Madison Avenue advertising agency by mistake, and proceeds to turn the company on its head. Particularly hilarious are the television commercials that Swope makes up, which put real people in stereotypical ad situations...
Blazing Saddles, 1:30, 4:50, 8:10. Putney Swope, 12, 3:15, 6:30, 10. Through...