Word: chieftains
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...Enemy: Bureaucracy. True to its ideal of detachment, the Voice avoids the excesses of partisan politics. Though it supported the Democratic reform movement in its battle to overthrow Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio, it has derided the reformers for their self-righteousness. It backed John Lindsay for mayor, but does not hesitate to criticize his "waspishness." And the paper that claims to have discovered the New Left has recently discovered a New Right, rebelling against the upper-class gentility of Bill Buckley. To the Voice, individuality of any shade of Village opinion is to be cherished. The major enemy...
...bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...
...King Arthur ever existed, he was hardly the Lerner & Loewe hero who ruled so romantically over the fabled Camelot. He was more likely a quarrelsome and ruthless local chieftain who badgered monks, stole their cattle, and led a hardy band of early English Christians in clobbering barbarian invaders at the battle of Mount Badon in A.D. 517. Still, avid Arthurians yearn to prove either version-and it now looks as though some hard archaeological evidence is at hand in a hilly pasture at Cadbury Castle, 100 miles southwest of London...
Other experts think the find is merely the home of a local chieftain of the time. At any rate, the humble abode can't hold a candle to the once and future palace of Malory's king...
...pathos to the film as a settler's wife. Kidnaped once by Apaches, she yearns to go back to the tribe because her husband (Dennis Weaver) doesn't think any decent woman should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure...