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...black-and-white photographs (mostly Walker Evan's) of America in the throes of Depression. But when the film proper begins in vivid '70s color, any sense of the period vanishes. Although Depression comes up once or twice in dialogue, none of the locals really has that lean and hungry look. The scenery is so picturesque and colorful that we get no sense of the drabness of the period. Even boarded-up banks in abandoned towns look like quaint tourist attractions. Even with its clothes, cars, and real American accents, the film fails miserably as a period piece...
...system be justified which permits an hour and twenty minutes to elapse before the call goes out to the engineers? How can a system be permitted to continue under which people stuck in elevators have to lean on the alarm bells for hours without ever being told that they have been heard...
Danny had paid with lost weight for the work he had done on the McGovern campaign, but he looked better lean, and I noticed he had regained most of it by July. Now he could afford a new small foreign car which had its own elegance on that sunny summer afternoon parked under a tree by the marshes and he, with his blond mustache and clear eyes, and his girlfriend, with her blond hair and shy, nice smile; both of them looked like they had driven out of the movies. And I envied them a little, because everything seemed perfect...
...presidential campaign and was a fund raiser in the disastrous gubernatorial race two years later. "He was constantly at Nixon's side, puffed up with authority and having complete say how and when the money was to be spent," says a colleague from those days. In the lean years that followed for Nixon, he stood fast as one of the few true believers, and as early as 1967 he helped Nixon start up his second presidential campaign...
...prototypical 50's motiveless wandervogel in The Wild One. Set on John Steinbeck's 30's Northern California farmland, Kazan strips the Nobel Prize winner's story of all its forced Biblical parallels. And in focussing the story upon the character played by Dean he creates the sort of lean, energetic, powerfully dramatic work which the author's plodding traditional allegory failed to produce. Brattle Theatre...