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...youth of today has a big surprise for the world of tomorrow. Because millions of us really care. We are not going to be content with what is going on in Duck Hollow, Ky., or on the shores of Lake Winnecook in Maine. Things will change because we give a damn...
...York via communications satellite at a cost of $122.50 per minute. Switch channels. Fuzzy picture of Walter Cronkite, also in Paris, also costing $122.50 per minute. Neither had anything of substance to report about the Viet Nam peace talks that had brought them to Paris. Television never looks so hollow as when it focuses on an event that takes place behind closed doors or in men's minds. But there they were, along with more than 1,300 accredited newsmen from 39 countries. And there they had to be; the world has waited and hoped so long...
...effect. The small troubles that pervade the film become more tragic in retrospect: Madigan's domestic squabbles are at first banal, finally significant because Madigan dies before they can be resolved in such manner as usually satisfies audiences; his wife's final lament for her dead husband rings hollow because we have only seen her nagging him and his death locks her in the role forever in our minds. Siegel refuses to resolve the personal problems set-up during the film, and although we hope for positive change, we are often left with ambiguity or permanent limbo (Russell's relationship...
Hopelessness & Helplessness. Statistics at best can only delineate the bare perimeters of poverty. The sensations of being poor are scarcely comprehensible to the 170 million Americans who are not poor: the hollow-bellied, hand-to-mouth feeling of having no money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs over Southern shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk...
KENTUCKY: Blind in Duck Hollow Eb Herald would like to see it, but he can't: the sweet William and May apple and columbine bright on the ledges, the dogwood dotting the green rise to the west, the clear bulge of Duck Creek as it purls over the smooth stones through Duck Hollow. Eb ? his real name is Elbert, but one doesn't call a mountain man that ? is 56, and he went blind seven years ago. (Degenerative blindness afflicts many Appalachian dwellers as a result of in breeding.) Lank and long-striding in his pale blue...