Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...terribly visible over the summer, but he has made up for it during the last few weeks of the election campaign. The campaign was not only dirty and disgusting-but also revealed an Administration bent on practicing a noisy, unsubtle and, of course, insane brand of right-wing politics...
Radcliffe passing was weak in the game, and the team was unable to sustain an attack. The first twenty-minute half passed with no score by either side, although elegant Pine Manor wing Beth Clark made several threatening advances...
...Leonard got involved in a Cambridge radical movement called Viet Nam Summer. Working with young left-wing professors, the S.D.S. and assorted revolutionaries, he wrote ads, pamphlets and did public relations. But at the end of the summer he left, disillusioned by the "disaster and disgrace" of the New Politics convention in Chicago. He even considered moving to Spain. Instead, Leonard was hired by the Times as one of seven "previewers" who select and recommend books to the Times' critics. Nineteen months later he was promoted to critic-and found his métier...
...into the big, clean American sound of WUSA, the sound of a decent generation." The disk jockey is a drunken, apolitical animal named Rheinhardt (Paul Newman), whose job is to plug crypto-fascism for good ole WUSA, a right-wing New Orleans radio station. By night he delivers his spiel under the heel of the station's jackboot-minded owner (Pat Hingle). By day he wallows in booze and self-pity ("I had it made and I woke up one morning, I looked down and fell off my life") in the arms of his pathetic paramour, a hooker named...
Adapted from A Hall of Mirrors, a slice of underworld life by Novelist Robert Stone, WUSA is a wayward attempt to chart the depredations of right-wing forces in America. The film, produced by Newman, patently reflects the political views held by him and his wife Joanne. Their social awareness is admirable, but it has led their moviemaking astray. As two of the screen's most talented artists, they could have brought strength to Stone's closely stitched characters. Instead, personality and plot are overridden by politics...