Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great extent, is responsible to what happened to Humphrey both in '68. If that's true, it did not apply in 1960. The media was just as bad [unintelligible] two weeks...
Casablanca is arguably the best piece of movie romance ever to work its way onto the silver screen. It's all there: love and war, heroes and villians, sentiment and more sentiment. If that's not enough there's Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. And if that's still not enough there's the most touching line in all of movie history: "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." Bogart reportedly picked the movie's ending because it made his mother cry. If it doesn't do the same...
...triumph, of course, was short-lived and for the most part a mistaken one, as the events that followed in rapid succession over the next year would clearly indicate. Kennedy was murdered, Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey vied for the honor of becoming the lesser evil, the events and reaction to the Democratic Convention in Chicago proved unequivocally where the heart of the nation was and pointed out the tremendous schisms that existed even between the New and Old Left. By 1969, Nixon was firmly ensconced in the White House with a mandate to clear the streets of the renegades...
Chinatown, Roman Polanski's homage to 1930s detective movies, is one of the few really good films playing in Boston this week. Jack Nicholson is no Humphrey Bograt, but he does make an extremely convincing badass private eye. When Faye Dunaway is good, she's very good, and in this one she's excellent. The plot is fun but ultimately insignificant. Worth traveling out of Cambridge for, Chinatown is playing at Cleveland Circle...
...including Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern. Manatt too has ambitions: his target is appointment to a top government job or election to office within the next five years...