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...hypocrisy generated by seven years of undeclared war has come home to America this fall. Scandals, the immensity of which would have crippled any Presidential candidate in the early sixties, have barely ruffled Nixon and his henchmen. A contempt for the public unwitnessed since Warren G. Harding's "front porch" campaign in 1920 as the central feature in a campaign where the incumbent is afraid even to mention his name on stickers and billboards. A year that started off so promising with a string of McGovern primary victories has soured, and weary resignation seems destined to reign once again...
After Marquand had driven his wife to the train station that Saturday in 1943, he drove back to the Kaufmans'. For awhile the two collaborators stood silently on the front porch, until Kaufman finally said, "John, why do you associate yourself with people like the Lindberghs?" Marquand thought a moment and replied, "George you've got to remember all heroes are horses' asses." Marquand makes fun of Apley's inhibitions and his struggle to fit the grip of Boston tradition and his struggle to fit the grip of Boston tradition and not betray it. Yet all his life Marquand sought...
There is the Hopperesque alienation of George Segal's white plaster woman who sits behind the railing of her porch facing a world that does not even exist. And Luis Jiminez has remade the Statue of Liberty into a new symbol of American fertility...
...oldtime Arizonan, when asked by a visitor what the Arizonans did when the temperatures reach 115 , answered, "Hell, we just go out on the porch, take off our skin and sit around in our bones...
...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...