Word: casted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mean that the schools could not operate for more than two weeks next September. Dallas voters had not turned down a municipal-bond issue in 25 years, but after Proposition 13, they rejected six out of 17 such issues on the local ballot. Many of the "no" votes were cast in black and Mexican-American neighborhoods, which helped defeat such "elitist" proposals as a $45 million arts facility, a $14 million pedestrian walkway, and $6.8 million for convention-center improvements...
...high of 56,200. The extreme rightist National Democratic Party has only 9,000 adherents. Like the West German Communist Party, the N.P.D. is a legal political organization and a singularly ineffective one: in the 1976 general election, the party received only 122,000 votes out of 37.8 million cast...
Director Herbert Wise (I, Claudius) is keenly sensitive to the nuances of the writing; there isn't a broad moment in the entire 5½ hours. The cast could not be better. Richard Briers is particularly dexterous as a foolish, henpecked husband whose chummy manner does not entirely hide a disappointed heart. So is Penelope Wilton as the spinsterish sister who is most touchingly desperate for affection...
...around Amity (a.k.a. Martha's Vineyard), has a score by John Williams and stars a rather petulant shark. Roy Scheider, looking unaccountably like George C. Scott after a hunger strike, is back as the local police chief, and so are a few members of the Jaws supporting cast (Murray Hamilton, Lorraine Gary, Jeffrey Kramer). But the crucial elements of the original have vanished: there is no wit, no genuine terror and no cinematic dazzle. The first Jaws was made by Steven Spielberg, a virtuoso director with a Hitchcockian ability to whip an audience into a frenzy of simultaneous delight...
...Hyams did not push himself harder, for Capricorn One could be better. If the film had a few fewer plot holes, a bit more narrative depth and far less signposting dialogue, it might even have been a space-age Manchurian Candidate. A classier cast would also have helped. Gould, Holbrook and Waterston are all in fine, easygoing form, but Brolin and Simpson are useless heroes: they are not big enough stars or good enough actors to make us care about their fates...