Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declined to film an interview with a woman who had promised to tell how she cheats on welfare, and ABC canceled talks with Black Panthers in their Oakland headquarters. The reason in both cases: executives felt they could not offer guarantees of anonymity to their subjects. Says California Representative Moss, an active foe of Government secrecy: "It's difficult to tell you I've seen it, but I just sense that there's some sharpness missing from my evening news and the stories I read in the papers. It's so subtle; the erosion can take...
...course, the long frustration of the Viet Nam War more than any other factor that has fed the growing reaction against presidential power. Indeed, there has been an ironic turnabout by academics and liberals who once excoriated members of Congress as moss-backed obstructionists retarding the social legislation of F.D.R., Truman and Kennedy. Now such critics attack Congressmen for acquiescing in the war policies of Johnson and Nixon, and for not obstructing more. The rationale of legislators has long been that the President "knows better" than they about a complex problem like Viet Nam through the Executive's intelligence...
Directed by STAN DRAGOTI Screenplay by CHARLES MOSS and STAN DRAGOTI...
Since Michael J. Pollard (most familiar for his slow-witted C.W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde) holds down the title role, this movie is, alas, a Pollard vehicle. In fact, Pollard is physically right for the part, although with his bulbous cheeks and cretinous eyes, he looks a bit like Dopey. However, he acts more like all the Seven Dwarfs-simultaneously. Instead of directing him, Dragoti indulges him. Pollard either mopes or mugs in every scene, and cruelly prolongs every line of dialogue that he cannot swallow entirely. There are some good secondary performances, though: by Charles Aidman...
...impossible to consider that the albums will be stashed away to gather moss next to the Glenn Miller '78s of our parents, but it is equally impossible to think that we will continue to respond the way we do. The pace of life has tended to produce instant nostalgia, and this may happen even before the Stones are gone. They might outlive us into another generation that needs then help along the pimply road of adolescence or they might just fade away...