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...picking up the thread on an earlier discussion about the problems of grassroots politics. How do you make time to keep in close touch with the people as you get more and more important? It seemed right that Julian keep going on and up, to prove as another boy in the car said that the "hundreds of others like you, Julian," could make it. But how do you maintain your integrity, the honest responsiveness to your constituency and to your own conscience, while wheeling and dealing in the world of power politics...
...Slender Thread. At the Crisis Clinic, a suicide-prevention center in Seattle, a student volunteer (Sidney Poitier) embarks upon a life-or-death telephone conversation with an unhappy young matron (Anne Bancroft) who has locked herself in a motel room and taken an overdose of barbiturates. "What happened?" he asks. "Nothing, really," she answers helplessly. "I just didn't have anything...
These casual words ought to open the way for a stirring semi-documentary about the impulsive, unpredictable nature of suicide. Unfortunately, Thread does not follow through on its inspiration-a vivid 1964 LIFE article in which Shana Alexander described the psychological crisis that led one anonymous Seattle housewife to attempt self-destruction. The movie is a routine, sometimes mawkish melodrama, and a sorry misuse of talent...
...that her husband (Steven Hill) rejected her when he discovered that he was not the father of their son. Awash in self-pity, she wanders down to the shore and demonstrates her love of life by buying brandy for a sick bird. By the time the bird dies, Slender Thread has been holding up the line far too long for a film that has nothing on its mind but a sob story...
...girl he knows is a man-eating blonde TV commentator (Honor Blackman) who lives by a rule that might well raise obstacles for Joe: "Only one thing I ask from you-be honest." Joe follows his mistress to Lon don to earn success on his own merit, but every thread of his being leads straight back home to Brown & Hether-sett's woolens...