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Although the Rodino staffs requests for documents thus had specific and legitimate aims, they were still portrayed by Nixon and St. Clair as too vague and extensive. Nixon said at Houston that the committee wanted to "bring a U-Haul trailer" up to the White House and carry out the presidential files. Members of Congress were bristling at such exaggerations. There was overwhelming sentiment in the Congress that it would not tolerate Nixon's withholding of evidence from the Rodino committee. Nevertheless, Ziegler insisted that the White House would not supply the evidence requested by the Rodino staff until...
...masochism. But it also chronicles a voyage of the spirit. With painful, plodding honesty, Moorhouse examines his insular intolerance of strange customs and his lack of confidence in his ability to evaluate his guides and companions along the way. He confronts the colossal reluctance he felt at having to haul himself into the saddle each morning for another day of pain. Thirst reduced him to almost incoherent terror. Every chance encounter - whether with a lone sheepherder or a cold-eyed Tuareg tribesman - knotted his insides with anxiety...
ROAD MOVIE is a pitifully clumsy yarn about a couple of truckers (Robert Drivas, Barry Bostwick), the hooker they pick up for relaxation (Regina Baff), and the interstate agonies of owning a rig and trying to haul your freight to Chicago on time - before the gas crisis. Director Joseph Strick has made several other films (The Balcony, Ulysses), although it is not apparent here. Road Movie is a shambling hour and a half padded out with highway footage photographed from the truck's cab. The woman's character is the most interesting in the film, though there...
...street I turned right. Here hardware of all shapes and sizes was spread out in metallic tapestries--pipes, nails, hammers, funnels, axles, wire, hinges--all irregular and worn, many rusted and cracked. Again, mostly women were sitting behind the wares. The women sell, the men haul. Seated behind a small collection of knives made of rough-hewn steel and handles whittled from eucalyptus branches, a woman chatted away with a friend who carried a bag, on her way to buy some rice or vegetables for lunch. As she talked the seated woman smoothed out the shiny folds of her yellow...
Part of the problem was simply making contact with the 100,000 or so strikers, who are represented by scores of organizations. Self-employed businessmen who often own two or three rigs and haul goods for trucking companies on a contract basis, the independents are united only in their demands and by a general disdain for regulations that inhibit their sense of freedom...