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Waiting on the corner for the morning bus is at best a frustrating experience in any city. In Regina, Saskatchewan (pop. 143,000), where temperatures often hover at 20° below zero, it can be downright hazardous. For some residents of Regina's south side, however, bus waiting is no longer a problem. A simple phone call will bring a city bus right to their front door...
Some residents express downright hostility toward the candidates. "These politicians, what do they care about us?" asks Berlin's DuMesnil. "The only time we see them is when they're looking for a few votes." At a high school assembly in Milford, a student opened the questioning of Democratic Senator Vance Hartke by asking: "Senator, do you think students should be forced to come to these political rallies?" Hartke said no-and the student promptly walked out. As polltakers, reporters and canvassers for the candidates keep probing the voters, resentment is growing. "The people are getting tired...
When not swinging the sledge, Loeb and the Union Leader can be downright cute in their way. After the announcement of Nixon's Peking trip, Loeb invited readers to rename the President's plane. Suggestions included go Mao, Pay Later and DingALing Dickie's Rickety Red Rickshaw. Loeb finally selected Freedom's Futile Flight. But fun and games are not restricted to presidential politics. When Loeb's choice for Governor was defeated in 1970 the Union Leader ran the names of some 15,000 registered Manchester-area voters who had not turned out. The implication...
...film a mixture of sentiment and politics, but also a mixture of silent and sound. One large gag based on sound--gurgling stomachs embarrassed Chaplin and a minister's wife when they are forced into close quarters--falls on its face. Chaplin's use of the camera is downright unimaginative, as are the sets. The one famous exception is the factory, and its expressionistic construction of cogs upon cogs and wheels within wheels. When the factory worker slides headlong down the conveyor belt into the bowels of the factory, the image of a human being slithering through the cogs graphically...
Tall and ruggedly handsome, McGovern, as a campaigner, is still the low-key prairie politician who won office in South Dakota by hopping out of his car to talk to farmers in the fields. Though charming and often witty in conversation, he can be downright dull on the hustings. In deference to the youth vote, McGovern's hair has crept down over his collar and he has taken to wearing flashy mod clothes, but his failure to create any sense of drama about himself and his convictions is the despair of his staff...