Word: homesteading
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...bedroom than the courtroom, the director and his co-scenarist. Harold Buchman, fill the frames with repeated and lingering flashbacks to the blood-splattered walls and victim, and force-feed the characters into continually exchanging one-liners as if they were Frisbees. Occasionally, Furie shows the Silent Majority homestead in its most ludicrous light (the inquest is held outdoors in a livestock exposition arena), but mainly is preoccupied with providing plenty of lip-smackin-good leers. (Told that his client never played around. Tony quips in disbelief, "What's the matter-did he have it shot off in the last...
...Nixon's by more than birthright. Orange today is affluent, expanding rapidly, suburban in appearance and conservative in politics. It is, in short, a microcosm of the America that may one day yield a national Republican majority. If there were sentimental reasons for re-establishing a Southern California homestead, there were practical ones as well. The West is growing faster than the East. California in 1972 will have the highest electoral vote of any state (it already has the largest population). In terms of both ideology and numbers, the G.O.P. counts California as the Western pillar of its future...