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...most basic cinema-verite tradition, A Choice I Made tries to put the viewer behind the volunteer's eyes to experience what they are experiencing. For example, we are treated to a motorcycle ride at 40 m.p.h. down the village mainstreet, dodging all kinds of carts and cows, as a volunteer poultry farmer brings his eggs to market. We walk along with another volunteer as he goes into the village to do his daily errands in the late afternoon, stopping with him to greet his friends and students...
...part the fair is Mainstreet cum Madison Avenue out of control, a veritable phantasmagoria of garish commercialism. But even the blatantly tawdy has its fascination. So does the sideshow atmosphere of a Ford convertible ride to Walt Disney's dinosaur-land and "Space City," an "audio-animatronic" Abe Lincoln, and a Ferris Wheel disguised as a giant tire...
...Hampshire contest. "Next Tuesday while you are voting," he said in Concord, "I'll be heading a rodco at home. I'l be riding an old palomino named Sonny--twenty-three years old but she rides better than a rocking chair..." (Laughter) "And as I ride down my mainstreet, I want the people in my hometown to point to me and say 'There's the fellah who won so big in New Hampshire.' That's why next Tuesday is so important to this particular candidate...
...Communist parties won control in some 800 of 1,200 communities which had been held by the Reds, among them Genoa, Venice,. Ravenna and Forli. Through their control of local governments, the Reds had been able to win friends not through ideological appeal but by doing favors on the mainstreet, grassroots level. Loss of that patronage was a severe blow to the Red political machine...
...reporter gave them the idea that started the sparks flying. Like everyone else in Central Falls they had known all along that illegal slot machines, bookies and back-room gamblers were doing a fat $1 million-a-year business. There were slot machines in half the city's mainstreet stores. Up until now they had obediently heeded unofficial warnings not to do anything about it. But a good lively raid might get them a better break...