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Word: filmgoer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lower depths" for the upper and middle classes. There hasn't been a decent manual laborer since, not even in Five Easy Pieces, which made the only repressed figure an ex-concert pianist. Even Brando's heroic dockworker from On the Waterfront would be a welcome addition to current filmgoer; though the enemy in that film was a crooked union (read in Kazan's anti-communism) and the force of good a priest (read in the moral order of liberal America); at least Terry Mullow was a full human being who had a culture of his own and thought about...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Shoestring Humanism | 1/15/1971 | See Source »

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