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When Richard Nixon pinned a flag in his lapel and became the spirit of '76, lapel flags blossomed in board rooms and Rotarian halls. After the story got out that Nixon had seen Patton at least three times, the motion picture's gate went up an estimated...
...Rotarian and former Sunday school teacher, the silver-haired native of Kansas City occasionally gardens but has few interests outside of his work, his wife Ruby, two grown children and two grandchildren. Those who work with him say he is affable, even-tempered and taciturn. In high school he was nicknamed "Chief" because his slightly stooped frame (6 ft., 200 lbs.) resembled a cigar-store Indian silhouette. Now, behind his back, subordinates call him Dick Tracy because of his fondness for technological gadgetry (such as Kansas City's computerized information system and helicopter patrol, which he instituted...
...this any way for a middle-aged Rotarian to get back in touch with the rhythms of nature and put some order in his life? Novelist Crews (Car, Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit) makes it seem so. George's devotion to the austringer's discipline may be a little crazed, but Crews suggests that any obsession is better than inane passivity. And the latter quality is all that George can see in the Southern Gothic remnants who make up his family and friends. As George passes through a series of farcial set pieces (a woozy...
...characters with soap-opera mawkishness through father-son conflicts that are no less tiresome for their undeniable reality. Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) is a Westchester County octogenarian Babbitt who fulminates against "some damned savage who will walk off with the luggage" at Kennedy Airport and complains to a fellow Rotarian about "some bozo who has been crowding into our pew at church." As a child he worshiped his mother and despised his father; naturally his middle-aged son (Gene Hackman) feels the same way. The two clash openly-and obviously-when Gene's garden-club-variety mother dies. Sensitive...
...whores. This multiple insult producing no return blows (and even some agreeable chuckles), Mailer lost his fighting balance. He had grown accustomed to audiences that either wildly cheered him or shouted that he could go fuck himself. Now, he appeared nonplussed by an audience regarding him in some dull Rotarian lumpishness: we had heard, at this point, enough speeches each week to properly nominate a Presidential candidate, and so probably would not have been inspired had Moses appeared to reveal an Eleventh Commandment. When our guest threw it open to questions, we lobbed up fat, soft and non-curving batting...