Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diminutive Billy McMahon, 64, the campaign was his first since he won the Liberal Party leadership 21 months ago in a messy internal battle that toppled controversial Prime Minister John Gorton, 61. McMahon's political skills seemed to desert him as he tried to rule the country. He waffled over decisions; and often after he finally made them, he had to reverse them. His campaign performance was equally uninspiring. In Perth he told a rally that his government was looking forward to "increasing opportunities for unemployment." At Melbourne he pledged: "We will honor the problems we have made...
...film. A talk-show panelist calls it "an existential performance." (It couldn't be Maria's life anymore.) But the manipulation goes deeper. A woman watching T.V. footage of her house sliding into the ocean comments on the good camerawork. Early in the movie while the camera pass the desert and finally settles on a God-forsaken huddle of buildings. Maria's voice-over tells us that she grew up in a nearly deserted town called Silver Wells, Nevada. Maria says, "This is not Silver Wells...
...mentally disturbed daughter, Kate, find visual equivalents in her visits to the institution where Carter has committed their daughter. On the other hand, with the fast-cut flashbacks to Maria's coerced abortion, the style distracts us from her horror. The book played L.A.'s bleakness against the desert's, and the film tries some of the same tricks. The people have migrated media well, the geography much less...
...images. Still, Perry's attempts to imitate her taunt staccato sentences with abrupt cutting and flashes to yield signs (symbols, anyone?) just doesn't catch the throbbing pulse of Maria's driving--her personal substitute for suicide. When the action moves out to Carter's shooting location in the desert. Hell is still other people, but Perry successfully concentrates on them, and not on the plastic city they have built...
Democrats who were willing to desert the party at the top of the ticket came home at the lower levels. In general, voters were remarkably kind to incumbents regardless of party. Across the country, fewer than a dozen Congressmen who had made it to the general election were unseated. From the grass roots looking up, the Nixon landslide in most districts was barely perceptible. One explanation may be that the electorate was reaching for stability and the familiar face; a conscientious Congressman makes sure that his features are well known...