Word: rootlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watering-hole for two feuding machines: the "independents" and the "reformers." But then, Cambridge is not your every-day run-of-the-mill cities. It is a diverse, and sometimes bizarre mixture of working class and intelligentsia, of black and white, of ethnics of rooted and rootless, and Yankees, and of separate communities that lack any common link but their unification into a single suburban city...
Ehrlichman & Co., largely the products of the rapid, rootless commercial expansion occurring in the "sunbelt" states, are the quintessential expression of the technical mentality, divorced from hard-won tradition, humbled before nothing-precisely the people from whom Hamilton was intent on protecting the Republic...
...those afternoons, Chloe (ZouZou), former girlfriend of a former friend, visits him in his office, first begging for a job, then mounting a seductive siege upon him. Chloe is a rootless Bohemian who hops from one night club job to another with sophisticated promiscuity. Though Frederic disapproves of her life style, her availability during his empty afternoons subdues his initial queasiness. The rest of the movie becomes a teased out elaboration of the question, will Frederic or will he not sleep with Chloe? He sees her daily, wines and dines her, lies to his wife when he arranges his rendez...
Rafelson peoples his landscape with the misfit fringes of go-ahead America: wheeler-dealers and sham artists, gamblers, petty crooks and rootless wanderers. Though outsiders, they still cherish a belief in Monopoly's promise, winner takes the jackpot. So they circle the board in a frivolous game of one-upmanship, until life sputters out in disillusionment or disaster...
...more. Even in today's hack westerns, dynamic forces are at work. The old settler vs. Indians and ranchers crises have been multiplied: brothels vs. churches, robber barons vs. entrepreneurs, California and Texas vs. Mexico (as last outpost frontiers), and one theme above them all-the cussing, whoring, rootless, indomitable old rider (be he gunslinger or lawman) vs. the encroaching complexity of modern society...