Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing the part of a girl once hooked on Karl Marx, Barbra Streisand suddenly found herself surrounded by Marxes: Grouchos, Chicos, Harpos...It was a scene in a new film, The Way We Were-a costume party to which Barbra, Co-Star Robert Redford and all the other guests came as Marx Brothers. Among the onlookers: Groucho Marx himself, at 82 the only survivor of the famous trio. Groucho offered suggestions, dropped a few quips, and listened to the others recite some of the lines from his films. Sample: "This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas...
Nixon took McGovern's home state away from him with 54 per cent of the vote, but Democrat James Abourtezk took cold warrior Karl Mundt's old Senate sent away from the GOP with 54 per cent of the popular vote Incumbent Democratic Governor John Kneip was re-elected with 61 per cent of the tally...
...biography of McGovern, Robert Anson quotes the South Dakota Senator as saying that his 1960 Senate campaign against Karl Mundt was his worst political effort. "It was my worst campaign. I hated him so much I lost my sense of balance. I made some careless charges. I got on the defensive during the campaign and was rattled. I started explaining and answering things I should have ignored. It was hard to get a book on Mundt...
...first third of the film, is a test for proud men. The land is not fertile. The weather is capricious. The parson sells liquor, and the sheriff, even if he is a nice fellow, is at the mercy of the richest landowners. The situation produces heartbreaking images: Karl Oscar's father, crippled when a stone he had removed falls back on him, is carried home from the fields on the back of his stolid country wife (in long shot); or the little girl, lit by her mother's torch, wails with a burst stomach, next to a wooden bowl...
...others stop, seeking the best possible farmland for his family. He cuts his way through miles of forest until he reaches the meadows by the shores of Lake Ki-Chi-Saga. Troell cuts with a compass to four views of the land the Swede has chosen. And after Karl has chopped the bark of a tree to mark his claim, knowing that he has done right by all and enchanted by his prospects, he naps. As the camera hovers inches from his face, he also smiles, with a new jauntimess...