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...last fling before adulthood closed in? The jobs Fuller held in early manhood might lead one to think so: machine fitter in a cotton mill. Navy ensign during World War I, managing exports for a meat packer and sales for a truck company. The presidency of the Stockade Building System (1922-27) sounds more like it. Fuller and his father-in-law copatented a tough, light substitute for bricks that eliminated the need for hod carriers and mortars. Holes in the blocks were lined up and cement poured in. Both the brick industry and the unions ganged up against...
Freaks, failures but preposterously optimistic, Leo and Teddy grow to manhood trying to be like everyone else. If their early years suggest the Katzenjammer Kids, their later years are X-rated Laurel and Hardy. They booze, dream of becoming professional jazz musicians, chase and frequently catch girls. There are Leo days, Teddy days, and occasionally Leo-and-Teddy days, never thought it would be like this; I mean, siamese twins, holy Christmas," says one young virgin...
...Nixon was following a policy of "unconscious isolationism"; he had allowed the U.S. to become isolated from its allies and trading partners, isolated from the world's developing nations, and isolated "from reality by the insistence that tough talk and big Pentagon budgets are somehow synonymous with national manhood." McGovern called instead for "a new internationalism," which would de-emphasize military solutions and big-power politics. It would instead accent multilateral cooperation, especially in helping small nations overcome hunger and poverty...
...submerged in the fight against crime and subversion. He too often lacks compassion and equates conformity with conscience. He is apt to ignore basic changes occurring in the U.S. by simply conjuring up an image of national wellbeing, perhaps a sentimentalized vision emanating from the America of his young manhood...
This is a movie about a boy who falls out of a tree. It touches, in addition, on such evergreen themes as coming of age, loss of innocence and passage into uncertain manhood. Such an undertaking represents a narrowing in scope for Larry Peerce, whose previous effort, The Sporting Club, dramatized the decline of the West. In symbolic terms, of course...