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Colman C. Johnson and his wife, Jean Conrad Johnson, came to Cambridge 28 years ago from a farm in southern Vermont to find an easier way to make a living...
...laid out (often visually) and the suspense tightening as pursuer and pursued draw closer together. It is also a persuasive portrayal of an increasingly tense cop community (John Malkovich contributes a tough, scary FBI interrogator grilling Berlin when false suspicion focuses on him). Finally, aided immeasurably by the great Conrad Hall's darkly foreboding cinematography, the film is terrific to look at. This director has a real gift for rendering gloomy provinciality in subtle imagery...
...CONRAD: I think if you limit ((campaign contributions)) to just individuals and political parties, you have played into the hands of the wealthy. Frankly, I'd rather get money from PACS than wealthy individuals. With PACS you know the agenda. It's the homebuilders, it's the wheat growers, it's the sugar-beet people. With individual donors, in many cases you have no idea what the agenda...
...CONRAD: Here's an example. In my last campaign, I ran against the incumbent, % who had three times as much money as I had. I got $5,000 from the PAC of a specific group and got more than $20,000 in individual contributions from people who were family members and board members of that company. Now, to suggest that PACS are the problem stands everything on its head. The problem is the amount of money in campaigns...
...CONRAD: I just got off the phone with Ross Perot before coming here, and there will be an announcement on Friday. ((Laughter.)) No, I've told people back home I don't rule anything in or anything out. I'm 44 years old, so I'm too young to make Shermanesque statements...