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...plot turns on an invasion from the troubled north by strange blacks equipped with European weapons and a shabby Asian brand of revolution. Francois, a loyal Bushman friend and the pretty 13-year-old daughter of a neighboring rancher escape the massacre by taking refuge in a cave, which Francois has stocked with provisions. There is a strong note of never-never to the story, and while the time apparently is the late 1950s, the impression persists that the author really is saying farewell to his own childhood in Africa decades before...
...listens to the band talk about their music and way of life, one comes away with the impression that a constant battle is being fought against the encroaching reality of society as it is, that the classmates who went to law school might eventually have then way. Each rancher has his own thoughts on the subject of the future of the band, for each has individual concerns in his personal life: marriage, security, and satisfaction. They are successful in that they have achieved an alternative life style to that which so many recent college graduates find abhorrent. They work four...
...Nixon sweep helped to produce a startling political horse race in Texas, where moneyed, conservative Democrats had always coasted to the statehouse on comfortable majorities. Much to his and almost everyone else's surprise, Millionaire Rancher-Banker Dolph Briscoe, 49, found himself in a down-to-the-wire battle with the Republican candidate, Houston History Teacher Henry C. Grover, 45. Grover came out of nowhere for several reasons -the Nixon landslide, Briscoe's own indifferent campaign, the presence of a Mexican-American candidate who drew many Chicano votes that normally would have gone to the Democrats. Backed...
What makes the film finally obnoxious is the attempt to heroicize these four moral morons by putting them in a situation which demands that they kill for our applause. At one rest stop, they are stripped of their guns by a rancher on whose land they've let their cattle graze. They are considerably teed off by the encounter. A few miles later they happen on a fledgling religious colony which offers water to the entire cattle-crew. When the rancher threatens to drive both groups away, once again claiming the land to be his own, ultimate incorrigibility is aroused...
...made up of various state parties that had backed Wallace in the 1968 presidential election, was what one dispirited conventioneer called a "headless horseman." The delegates nominated a lame-duck Republican Congressman from California named John Schmitz for President and Thomas Anderson, 61, conservative publisher of Florida Grower and Rancher magazine for Vice President...