Word: cornelis
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Director Philip Kaufman, here making his first major feature, serves up an eccentric, erratic mixture of subdued imagery, flamboyant dialogue and down-home movie corn. The movie remains a series of set pieces never made whole, and the ending invokes a facile and familiar irony. The yarn about "that last great raid" contains echoes of many other films and film makers, most markedly Arthur Penn (The Left Handed Gun, Bonnie and Clyde) and Abraham Polonsky (Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here). Those are two decidedly congenial influences, however, and Kaufman has the ingenuity to spoof and comment on them...
...presidential candidate, separated from his wife Caroline after 23 years and four children. By contrast, one California marriage enjoyed a happy 32nd anniversary dinner at the White House. Tricia and Eddie Cox helped the President and Mrs. Nixon celebrate with Pat's favorite foods: Swiss steak, whipped potatoes, corn on the cob, cucumber salad, cornbread...
...resented it; in 1646 they besought the duke to tax everyone equally for war, including "the painter M. Georges de La Tour," who "makes himself odious to the people by the number of dogs he keeps ... as though he were lord of the place, coursing his greyhounds through the corn, spoiling and trampling it." Apparently La Tour remained a crusty squire to the end: in 1650, two years before his death at 59, he thrashed a peasant with such spryness that a doctor had to be called...
...HISTORICAL and mythical material is constantly enlivened by the author's own eye and ear for the social customs of the region. He switches easily from the details of daily life--Pedro watching his kint on her knees grinding corn--to those of religious ceremony--Pedro helping prepare the food to be buried with his father. But his special sensitivity is his knack of combining the ordinary with the lofty, comparing the ecstasies of the saints, for instance, to eating chiles ("The heat is fine for a time, but afterwards the discomfort in the back field is too great...
...touches on baskets of Texas wild flowers hung from the limbs of live oak trees. Bouquets of chrysanthemums floated in the 40-ft. swimming pool behind the house. Cooks hovered over charcoal broilers, tending to some 200 lbs. of home-grown beef tenderloin; others monitored the huge vats where corn-on-the-cob was steaming...