Word: newman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stampers' devotion to their own simple truth is grotesque, there is a kind of perverse glory in it too. The strike is only a challenge and a test. When the union begins to exact reprisals, the younger Stamper men (Paul Newman, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel) reply in kind. Theirs is almost a ritual defense against the onslaughts of contemporary society. Ultimately Sometimes a Great Notion is not so much concerned with politics as with freedom and the human value of outright defiance...
...actors do it more than justice. Sarrazin, whose past performances have been consistent only in their boredom, is at ease and quite effective as a maverick Stamper home from the big city. Jaeckel is perfect as an inveterate joker who takes only his fundamentalist religion seriously, and Newman is better than he has been in years as the favorite son who idolizes his father. Fonda, as the old man, simply beats everyone cold. He has a death scene that must stand among the best work of a lifetime filled with superb film acting...
...Newman is also the director of Sometimes a Great Notion. Despite its shortcomings it is both more ambitious and more accomplished than his previous Rachel, Rachel. He seems more certain of himself here, not so recklessly inclined to expand a small moment into a crashing epiphany...
...millionaire. His eight pictures released since then-many of them the stark, violent brand of adventure tale that has come to be known simply as an Eastwood movie-have made him the No. 1 box office attraction in the world, and No. 2 in the U.S. (behind Paul Newman...
Alan J. Garfinkel, a graduate student and UAG member, opposed Newman, and said Hernnstein's article was "hardline racism, but more palitable to the community" since it gives the public a statistical basis for prejudice...