Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Good guy (Lee Marvin), on filmdom's most unforgettable horse, saves girl (Jane Fonda) from bad guy (Lee Mar vin) in Cat Ballon (1965), one of the best western spoofs ever to canter across the screen...
...setting is a graveyard. The event is a funeral for a man named Cock Certain. It is a starry night, and four sad people have gathered to say goodbye to the man who breathed life into them all. These people- called Miss Indigo Jones, Robin Breast Western, Filigree Bones and Fibber Kidding- cannot agree on any specific facts concerning their dearly beloved, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is what they do agree on: It is all no use. No use to go on living in a world where all we can wait for is the inevitable senseless...
...Dillard and Clark. The jacket featured a hill-billy type on a motorcycle passing a joint to another in a sidecar. That picture is almost a visual description of the music on the inside, a very gentle blend of C and W and rock. Generally the term Country and Western calls up images of excruciatingly sentimental lyrics with a fiddle and banjo contest going on in the background. But the arrangements on Expedition (songs written mostly by the musicians Gene Clark and Doug Dillard) combine the more subtle components of each genre, ending up with a very relaxed, tension-free...
...were dismissed from the football team after protesting an upcoming game with Brigham Young University. Reason: Brigham Young is affiliated with the Mormon Church, which bans Negroes from church offices. Now the Black Students Union at the University of Arizona has demanded that Brigham Young be expelled from the Western Athletic Conference. Similar discontent is spreading among other black athletes, who presented assorted demands and staged protests at Indiana University, the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota...
...finally were picked up by a truck driver who had just delivered 35 gallons of onion soup from New York City to Boston. He let off Adam in Worcester and took me as far as a Howard Johnson's somewhere in western Massachusetts...