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...more than 65% of the vote, the biggest sweep in an Alabama primary since 1920. He carried 66 of the state's 67 counties and received surprisingly strong support from blacks, whom he seriously courted for the first time in his political career. He is still coy about his plans for 1976, but it is clear that Wallace intends once again to use the Governor's mansion in Montgomery as a base for his quadrennial foray into presidential politics...
...past. Vellucci loves to play to a crowd, or an issue. On the council floor, he will pace like a country lawyer, cross-examining witnesses and fellow councilors with a sarcasm tinged with ethnic pride. While the liberals complained about Danehy's attempt to split their coalition, Vellucci played coy, talking about the dilemma he faced deciding how to vote...
...couched in subtle refractions of the ordinary. His work benefits from a naturalistic approach that reinforces the absurdity by contrasting it. Instead, O'Horgan clobbers the play with a bladder of tacky tricks, like shaking the camera to represent a rhino's point of view, staging a coy, clumsy dream sequence, and including a score by Gait MacDermot (Hair) suitable for rebroadcast in office elevators...
Dolphins speak and humans scheme in this coy satirical thriller. The dolphins come off a lot better, but of course they have the best roles. In fact, they have the only roles. There is the traditional complement of actors-George C. Scott most prominent among them-but none has enough raw material to build a part. So a loquacious dolphin and his female companion swim off with the show, and welcome...
Eastman has a quirkish, distinctly personal tone that goes coy once in a while, as in a labored double-entendre exchange between Vic and a black woman (Rosalind Cash) over the installation of a car radio ("Do you want it in the front or in the back?"). But the movie is also full of humor, melancholy and some dazzling film making. This is Eastman's first film as a director, but he demonstrates considerable sophistication, a feeling for textures and odd nuances. One long scene in a gym-empty at first, then slowly filling with fighters doing exercises...