Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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QUINCY HOUSE DINING HALL: Manchurian Candidate...
...thing I am very certain: Americans will never tolerate such interference in our election process. Woe to the politician who seeks to win by becoming a "Manchurian Candidate...
Fastidious distaste for fellow human beings is no hindrance to headwaiters and lighthouse keepers. It can be a positive asset for a man in the comic-novel industry. But Richard Condon, whose extraordinary talent for comedy produced The Manchurian Candidate, has developed this asset to the point of unproductive excess. In such recent novels as Mile High and The Vertical Smile he has simply refused to direct his attention toward anything that vaguely resembles a member of the human race...
Director Michael Ritchie borrows heavily from the work of John Frankenheimer. Fast, edgy editing and countless compositions involving television monitors come straight out of The Manchurian Candidate, where they looked and worked better. Most of The Candidate is constructed around press conferences, windswept campaign speeches and sweaty conferences in back rooms and back seats of limousines, giving the viewer the impression that he is looking at unused footage from a television documentary...
...cannot decide," Charles McCarry lamented in mid-manuscript, "whether Ralph Nader is Jesus Christ or the Manchurian Candidate." The pity is that McCarry and others fail to sense that Nader is-and need be-neither...