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...still counts more than issues. The difference is that the candidate who can holler "nigger" the loudest no longer wins; instead, candidates try to project what has been called a "best man" image. This has been termed the "politics of trust"?trust in basic good intentions. Arkansas' Governor Pryor, for one, insists that issues "aren't nearly as important as honesty and decency...
Modern Southern politicians are fond of describing themselves as being "people-oriented," and they undertake elaborate projects to dramatize their concern for the common man. As a Congressman, Pryor worked anonymously in nursing homes for several weeks and later made public his findings about how old people were being mistreated. Campaigning successfully for the U.S. Senate in 1970, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles walked a circuitous 1,003 well-publicized miles from Pensacola to Miami, chatting every step of the way with prospective voters about their problems. Last year, while running for Governor, Mississippi's Cliff Finch caught attention by spending...
...Democrats developed a new generation of leaders?like Carter, and such past and present Governors as Florida's Reubin Askew, South Carolina's John West, Arkansas' David Pryor. Black politicians rose rapidly to power in the South, and were invariably lured by the Democrats: Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, among many others...
...trying to make a go of independence and then trying to break back into the league from which they have been summarily shut out by the owners. For social significance, the movie includes a player who functions as a sort of Jackie Robinson surrogate. For contrast there is Richard Pryor, an actor-comedian of buckshot brilliance. Pryor calculates every line and gesture for small, explosive effect, and his aim stays true. He shows up here as Charlie Snow, a third baseman who hopes to break into big-league ball by passing himself off as a Cuban...
Snow's Spanish accent is dismal, so he spends his idle moments attempting to figure out his batting average. He struggles with an intractable decimal point, tries dividing times at bat by number of pitches missed, then multiplying the hits. As Pryor plays him, Charlie is a fellow of wit and resource, and his struggle with these impossible calculations is, much like his whole life, a slowly losing battle against absurdity. Jay Cocks