Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike past political races in Mississippi, Dantin's victory in the Democratic primary has not assured him a spot in the Senate. Strong challenges from a Republican and an Independent stand between Dantin and the Eastland legacy. Both Thad Cochran, a Republican Congressman, and Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, plan to be spoilers...
...been forced to pay is high. Evers, in an attempt to attract whites, has apparently decided to take a more conservative line than any other candidate. His campaign speeches before white groups make him sound more like a rich Delta plantation progeny than the spokesman for the civil and political rights of Mississippi blacks. Evers's conservative pabulum is almost what one would expect to hear from a George Wallace or a Strom Thurmond: defense of the American way of life from the Russian threat, pursuit of fiscal integrity to wipe out the nefarious national debt, welfare reform to ferret...
...standards, this pair should be politically extinct--confined to the junkheap of rusted-out racists like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. It was Thurmond, after all, who led the Dixiecrat walkout at the 1948 Democratic convention over Harry Truman's modest civil rights proposals and soon earned a reputation as the Senate's foremost segregationist. Television commentator Helms used race to boost him to the Senate...
Goin' South's script, set just after the Civil War, is essentially an extended two-character sketch. The other role is Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), a frigid young spinster whose odd habits include hanging up chairs on wall hooks. Julia weds Moon in a marriage of convenience: she needs someone to work her unsuccessful gold mine, while he needs a respectable wife to shield him from the law. The thin story traces the predictable warming up of their relationship. Pretty soon the film becomes a string of uneven set pieces, the best of which suggest Nichols...
What a peculiar order Josef Mengele, the evil Nazi scientist, gives to the aging party goons he has assembled in the great house in Paraguay: Kill 94 men, all of them petty civil servants scattered around the world, and kill them on or near their 65th birthdays as they occur over the next 2½ years. Still, true to their code, the Nazis obey his command unquestioningly...