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Director Huston is in fact at the top of his form as an entertainer in the grandstand manner. Unfortunately, he has tried to be more than an entertainer. The Unforgiven is designed and executed as a heroic poem, a sort of cow-country Cid. Its pace is slow and noble. Its frames are often stark tableaux. Its characters are simplified and enlarged into figures for a legend. But the legend, like most synthetic folklore, fails to come alive. How could it when the sod hut looks like a page from HOUSE & HOME, when the back-country heroine has an elocution...
...working out his farm program, Nixon-or any other presidential hopeful-faces a formidable task. Appeals for a new farm program are as plentiful in Election Year 1960 as flies in a cow barn, but no politician in either party has come forward with a really convincing program for cleaning up the mess...
...stern ramrod reverend and a kindly rolypoly one share the same pulpit, where Anthony Perkins, as a bedeviled wanderer's son, is afeared to marry his sweetheart, where people dart out of portable outhouses, or go in for bucolic frisks and nocturnal rituals, or pay such compliments as: "Cow has more but you are nicer...
Through the snowbanked rural reaches of the state, Kennedy and his pretty wife Jackie toiled, shaking hands, gathering dairy farmers together for talks, and making homey jokes, i.e., as the cow said to the farmer, "Thanks for the warm hand on a cold day." The response, on the whole, was fairly predictable: in the "backyard" of Minnesota's Humphrey, Kennedy could do little more than try to get himself known. (Humphrey himself was bedded down with a cold, missed most of his scheduled weekend foray, sent his wife Muriel to stump...
Twenty years ago, handsome Tom Mboya was just another barefoot child in the untamed highlands of East Africa, where his people had only recently discovered the uses of the wheel. He was born to illiterate parents on the dried cow-dung floor of a grass-roofed hut on the sisal (hemp) estate of Sir William Northrup McMillan, who, a local yarn has it, won his 34,000 acres of Kenya highlands with a throw of the dice in Nairobi's Norfolk Hotel...