Word: mccain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bought. Meanwhile, the committee became interested in rumors about the propensity of Justice David McCain to rule in favor of Attorney Joseph D. Parish Jr., who actively supported McCain's campaign for the court. In nearly every case he has heard involving Parish clients, McCain voted their way.* One winning client testified that Parish advised her to lie about an illegally unreported $1,000 campaign contribution to McCain. Other evidence indicated that McCain once had an aide investigate grounds for appealing a lower-court decision against a Parish client, then voted for the client when the appeal reached...
...intelligence, he gambled that none of the officers present understood English and wrote nonsense after each question. Navy Captain James Stockdale never broke. Asked for information about U.S. ships, he drew a picture of an aircraft carrier with a swimming pool and 300-ft. keel. Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain III once listed the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers as the members of his squadron...
...sterility of his existence. His unattractive daughter asks him inane riddles at the supper table, his wife (Estelle Parsons) quotes marriage advice from the Reader's Digest and his senile father jabbers from the porch swing. When the sheriff questions a young mountain girl named Alma McCain (Tuesday Weld) about a traffic violation, he sees her as a chance-perhaps his last -for freedom, rebellion, sexual gratification, maybe even love. Alma's father (Ralph Meeker) sees a chance for something too: protection for his illegal moonshine still. So he encourages his daughter to seduce the sheriff. Alma succeeds...
...spending $25,000 in the right places. He needs his father's unique talents on a dodgy job in Vegas. An upwardly mobile Mafia biggie (Peter Falk) has a yen to get in on some of the casino action and has hired Sonny to help him out. McCain doesn't know about the alliance between Sonny and the mob, but he spots the deal as a setup anyway. Like any good father, he chews out his kid about his job ("Where d'ya get $25,000? Sell women? Marijuana? Hustle yourself all over the street? Small time...
...proceedings might have turned out to be pretty shabby without the presence of first-rate actors who can turn any scene, without warning, into a jape or a jolt. Cassavetes, who took the role to get money to finish his 1968 film, Faces, looks rumpled, intense and angry as McCain and manages to invest this antiheroic part with some characteristic bits of melancholy...