Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McGovern was not alone on the left, however. His monopoly there was challenged by Fred Harris, John Lindsay, and even George Wallace. All, in differing senses, were "populists." "Harris, particularly, and to some extent Lindsay were talking about income redistribution and getting a pretty good play in the press," especially from liberal columnists like Tom Wicker and The Washington Post's David Broder, Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's top political adviser, recalls...
Columnists like these "have far more impact on a primary than they do in any other time because people only vote in a primary who have an active interest in the campaign," Mankiewicz said. And these columnists were portraying Harris and Lindsay as "guys who were talking about the real issues," an image that McGovern wanted...
...film's optimism lies in the success of the young actor. This optimism extends hope to humanity, but the hope seems so facile as to be ludicrous. Lindsay Anderson said last month that he had no clear conception of exactly how the ending event grows out of the film's plot. But he said that, in his mind, the ending was tied in with Buddhist notions of satori enlightenment being achieved by being hit over the head...
THIS EPIC cost a lot of money. It may even be Lindsay Anderson's last film. Many directors with far more promising, if smaller, projects cannot get financing. Anderson is far more full of ideas than is this film, and McDowell can do much better work than playing a role where most of his time is spent watching things happen to him. Films which seem initially to be failures by artists we respect deserve to be looked at closely, and on their own terms. Sometimes, as we begin to understand the artist's purpose, the work seems to grow...
...town (a film containing only vague social comment), and the lyric 1967 short, The Singing Lesson, in which Polish songs accompany a masterfully planned, plotless set of views of Warsaw. The two shorts are hardly ever shown to the public yet they, not the "epic" O Lucky Man!, represent Lindsay Anderson at his best...