Word: revivalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joke is important, because Hughes takes it from an article in the New York Times. He is telling his sophisticated Boston audience at the start that he, an Iowa man, can speak their language. Hughes' oratorical reputation pictures him as a revivalist minister, but for the moment he submerges that image in order to draw in his listeners. Accordingly, he begins with the war. Laos is to China as Mexico is to the United States, he says, and how would we feel if enemy troops were stationed in Canada...
...lines, as I read my notes, are great. Barnard Hughes as General Fitzhugh (he played the mad revivalist-pimp in Midnight Cowboy ) shoves a Sears Rocbuck size military catalogue in the lap of Nonomura's Prince Gow. "See if there's anything in there that grabs...