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Montaldo is generally faithful to historical documentation. But toward the end of the film, he makes one unforgiveable addition that undermines the entire thrust of his argument. He invents a scene between Vanzetti and Massachusetts Governor Fuller in which the convicted anarchist is asked to justify his request for a reprieve from the electric chair. During the course of their conversation, Fuller reveals that it is ultimately a political consideration--beyond any question of guilt or innocence--that makes it impossible to grant Vanzetti's request. Vanzetti is an anarchist; anarchists cannot be tolerated; Vanzetti must die. At this point...
...instruments himself, resulting in a sparse and repetitive sound. On the new album, he has the aid of George Harrison, the late King Curtis, Nicky Hopkins, and a dozen others. A string section that plays on the ballads gets a bit too heavy, but most of the time the fuller sound is more listenable...
...price of that choice is spelled out in the book's best selection, a 1970 commencement address at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. Hatfield's growing opposition to the war in Viet Nam had already earned him a healthy amount of thinly disguised hate mail from "fellow Christians." The letters faulted the Senator for criticizing the President and accused him of encouraging antiwar protest. He came to the occasion in obvious anguish...
...Fuller Brush Banking. Most of these innovations have come from President Adess himself, a lively 59-year-old businessman unencumbered by a banking background. He honed his instinct for pleasing customers as a Fuller Brush salesman during the Depression. From there, he went into retailing, building up his hardware business before selling out to take over as Coolidge's president. Adess believes that helping young people is good business. "We think that aiding them now will bring them back as customers after they graduate," he explains. Basically Adess sees himself as a retailer of money. "We try to offer...
...biologists who have lost their confidence that tomorrow can be better, that something new can really come into the world through man and his intelligence." Technology, he believes, can provide that something, perhaps in the form of the mass-produced housing and unlimited electrical power proposed by Buckminster Fuller...