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Resigning his governorship, he goes to find his mother. By a fishing hut on the shore of an island he hears the song she made up about him and Anju. Mizoguchi for the first time cranes up away from him and, keeping him in frame on one side of the house, reveals his blind mother on the hillside or the other side. Having set up that other-being-in-depth that is Zushio's goal, he cuts into close shot of her. Zushio approaches her, speaks to her; she refuses to believe it is he and, tearing herself away, hobbles...
...impression of Spiro Agnew, lose if you sound more like Eric Sevareid), Academic (up for snagging a federal consulting job, down if students smoke your cigars). There could even be Presidency, which no one could possibly win if he was once defeated for the office and then lost the governorship of California...
Joseph Alioto, son of a Sicilian fishmonger, won fortune as an antitrust lawyer and fame as mayor of San Francisco. Now he wants to run for the California governorship. In recent months, his political ambitions have been dealt two setbacks. First, Look magazine charged that he was involved with Mafia characters, an allegation to which the mayor responded with a $12.5 million libel suit (TIME, Sept. 19, 1969). Now, newspaper exposes report that Alioto apparently split legal fees with the then attorney general of Washington State...
SINCE 1961 Jesse Unruh has been the speaker in the California Assembly. This year he lost that position when the Reagan's Republicans captured the Assembly and Unruh, a Democrat, had to be replaced. Now Unruh is running directly against Reagan for the Governorship of California...
This education is also what Unruh carries into the California fight for the Governorship. It shows itself in some superficially distinctive ways: he "doesn't believe in the polls"; instead he disdains the defeatist pessimism of men like Tom Wicker and positively believes in his ability to challenge the incumbent...