Word: fining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paves streets, and runs a public library and volunteer fire department. The only paid municipal employee is a part-time city recorder who earns $50 a month. The citizens never have to fight city hall because there is not much city hall to fight. They think that is just fine...
...machines in the lobby and on down the Las Vegas strip. The scene is an outrageous assault on probability, but in its unexpectedness, it is a delight. Fonda's pursuit of Redford and the authorities' pursuit of all three fugitives are full of similar surprises, including a fine action sequence in which horse and rider twist and turn through town and countryside, eluding with skill and heart the mechanized klutzes who are after them. Here, too, there are improbabilities: an effete Thoroughbred flat racer could not really move like a cow pony or return him to nature...
...same winning grace. But Redford, making his first major appearance in almost four years, is in top form. He's a knothead, trying to disguise his essentially moral nature and his native shrewdness with a lot of good-ole-boy aw shucksing. There is tension, good observation and fine comic timing in his work...
...electric horseman and his lady. And Willie Nelson, the great country singer, is wasted in his first acting role. Still, there is not a more cheerful or engaging movie around these days. One can't help coming out of it in smiling good temper, having spent a fine time with nice, but catchily eccentric people. -Richard Schickel
...first time she and Dorothy were invited to the presidential mansion. It was for a special showing of their movie, Orphans of the Storm, and "my sister had a knot in her stomach from the excitement. But since both we and the President were from Ohio, everything went just fine." The President was Warren Harding, the year...