Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notions about subject matter can destroy the value of the kind of writing Hemphill does, and a collection of magazine pieces can make such notions painfully obvious. Hemphill runs the risk of dealing in preconceptions more than most writers, because his turf, the South, is defined in the national eye almost exclusively in preconceptions...
...does not having backing from Detroit; and a series of once-promising baseball players who never made it. Failures and dying breeds are Hemphill's stock-in-trade, but it never seems as if he's writing the same piece over and over with different characters because his eye for detail and dialogue and nuance remain sharp...
...kinetic performance in Easy Rider, the shrewd observation of the frantic womanizer in Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge and the unflappable incarnation of J.J. Gittes, the private eye on the make in Chinatown, Nicholson has built up one of the most impressive actor's portfolios in Hollywood. His are the kind of credentials the town likes best. The recent movies Nicholson stars in are generally well received, and he himself invariably is. His presence in a starring role seems to guarantee both prestige and a profit. That makes Nicholson the man most in demand, the dearest form of collateral...
Marvin Gardens, however, was a movie that asked audiences to reach out almost as far as Nicholson, and it flopped. Chinatown, a smooth, period private-eye yarn that works hard to hark back to the '30s and '40s, comes much more easily to hand. In it, Nicholson makes a shrewd choice to play persona rather than character-a commodity hi rather short supply in the script. His JJ. Gittes is cool, ironic, sympathetically small-time, a guy who stumbles on something a little bigger than he expected, or can manage. He also gets the chance to smile...
...Before the public eye--the focus of attention is on the negatives of the administration. It's an interesting point, Buchanan, in response to the response to his attack...