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Well, combine this image with that of a nervous, bumbling graduate student in history at Columbia, in the process of writing a doctoral dissertation designed to clear the name of his late father, a noted historian driven to alcoholism, and finally, to suicide by the McCarthy witch hunts, and you'll have something of a notion of what makes Marathon Man an outstanding thriller...
Johnson had to go airborne to retrieve it, but when he came down he quickly realized that he had as much chance of getting off a good kick as the Wicked Witch of the West did when Dorothy hurled the bucket of water...
...Witch-Hunters. Allen plays a politically innocent but street-shrewd cashier in a bar and grill, whose old high school friend (Michael Murphy) is a blacklisted TV writer suddenly in need of someone to sign his scripts for him, cash his checks and show up at rehearsals pretending he wrote the thing. The friend is gifted, the network execs are pleased, and Allen (who takes a percentage for his services) soon finds himself prospering and enjoying his demi-celebrity. But, of course, a tweed jacket and a book-lined pad do not an author make. The Front's best...
Before long, Allen is fronting for more than one talented writer. Then come the investigators. The witch-hunters just cannot believe that a scriptwriter this skillful has not committed an investigatable offense. Along the way Allen becomes involved with a comic named Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel), whose career is destroyed by the witch-hunters and who then destroys himself. Allen's consciousness (and his conscience) have been steadily expanding. In the end, he heroically-and funnily -defies the congressional committee that tries to pry from him at least a few suspect names...
...liberal term in the House, scorned her opponent as being little more than a Republican masquerading as a Democrat, and made much of the fact that he had served Richard Nixon as puckish gadfly, adviser and, ultimately, Ambassador to India. In turn, Moynihan made Abzug sound like the wicked witch of the West Side, implying she was guilty of "demagoguery and hypocrisy" for proclaiming her support of Israel while not voting for U.S. defense funds. When Abzug refused at first to say she would endorse Moynihan if he won, the former Harvard professor of urban politics inveighed that...