'Time Bomb'
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Oh, you know what else about X-Men? I wish the clothes and hair had been more period.
And on Company, I was pretty impressed with the filming of a stage show, although they didn't need to spend quite so much time on close-ups (especially during the kickline!).
I wish the clothes and hair had been more period.
Yeah! I hope January Jones laughed in her hairstylist's face. "This is not a sixties hairdo. Do you see how it's moving when the wind blows?!"
And hers was the stiffest.
The US/Soviet naval confrontation bugged me. No way would all those ships be so close together. A battleship could blow away any ship within, say, 25 miles, so if you're the captain of a Soviet guided missile cruiser, you stay more than 25 miles away from a US battleship, where you could still hit it with your missiles.
Yeah, that was goofy.
I thought it was odd that Xavier would use the word "groovy" in 1962 Britain. Wasn't popular usage still a few years away? Or are we supposed to think that he's also on the cutting edge of slang?
"Groovy" was popular among the Beats and in jazz culture - and not necessarily just by leading edge. Bob Hope used the word "Groovy" in several of the "Road to" movies to show how far from cutting edge you could be and use that word. That series ran from 1940 to 1962.
Wordnik used to have a chart of usage by year, but I don't see one anymore. I don't like the redesign.
I thought it was odd that Xavier would use the word "groovy" in 1962 Britain. Wasn't popular usage still a few years away? Or are we supposed to think that he's also on the cutting edge of slang?
Actually in Mingus' book Beneath the Underdog he has people using "groovy" going way back in the jazz era. Everybody was "Groovy at the Grove" (the Coconut Grove club).
I stand corrected!