Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Nixon's, although David initially disagreed when the candidate suggested eventually abolishing the draft in favor of a volunteer army. "I interpreted that at first to be the end of everybody being equally responsible for the country's welfare," says David. "I mean, you hear a lot of guys talking about how they are being excluded from the political process and on the other hand saying that it is in the national interest, as they have defined it, for them not to be drafted...
Faces, one of the two full-length American features in the festival, may be the most impressive of the lot. This is Actor John Cassavetes' second effort as both writer and director. He spent six months shooting the film-mostly in his own Los Angeles house-and almost three years editing it. The result is a 130-minute study of human pain, shame, cruelty and crudity of such abrasive intensity that it constitutes more of an experience than a show...
...scenes of indecent emotional exposure involving middle-aged businessmen, silly, frustrated wives, a good-natured call girl and a footloose young male hustler. All of them are compelled to pretend to one another and to themselves that they are having a good time. A good time is "having a lot of laughs," and their laughter-inane, drunken, forced-explodes and cackles frantically throughout the film. They feed one another stupid jokes, lies and childish games to keep the laughter coming. When it cracks, the bewilderment and despair leak out into the room and turn the laughers sick, self-pitying...
...after telling a black man with whom he had been chatting to "stay out of trouble" in a friendly way. Just after he left, Deloros, the manager of the Sunset, came in and talked about the place. "It's like a club in a way," she said. "I have lots of parties here for the regular people ... we have pictures of the parties." She said that the police had few complaints about the Sunset, commenting, "We have some complaints, but no bar and grill is perfect. There are a lot of restaurants that serve liquor who are worse. Why they...
...their choices, the Fellows almost seem to run their fingers through the pages of Who's Who. The degree-winners are a famous lot, famous in establishment circles...