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Candidate. Art as reportage. An ultimately pointless but very entertaining chronicle of the rise of a liberal no-mind. Peter Boyle, as a wily campaign-manager, steals the show...
...Democratic Party. This has been detected by TIME correspondents, who sense a growing mood of introspection and a feeling that so long as the vast majority of Americans seem likely to vote for the status quo the youthful fervor spent crusading in a cause seems pointless. Whether McGovern, ahead on campus and trailing among youth elsewhere, gets the boost he needs to compete with Nixon in November may well turn on just how many of his young supporters care enough to vote...
Dawn breaks over Los Angeles. A reluctantly retired cop called Kilvinsky, who is quietly going crazy now that he is off the force, phones his friend Roy, a still-active patrolman. Kilvinsky (George C. Scott) launches into a rambling, nearly pointless anecdote about a batty old lady who kept seeing a man hovering around her front-porch swing. Friend Roy (Stacy Keach), mostly asleep, listens with polite tolerance. Kilvinsky hangs up, pulls the hammer on his Police Special and blows the back of his head...
...Ellsberg, who said he was "mentally ready" to go on trial and eager to publicize his case, the strenuous defense efforts for delay at first seemed somewhat pointless, but Co-Defendant Russo was delighted. "In an all-out fight with the Government," he said, "you score what points...
...mildly pointless ritual underscored old questions: Can international law have any real value in limiting armed conflict? Do the complex doctrines of law simply disguise the fact that might makes right? Could the doctrines work if they were generally observed-or enforced...