Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The area is now Nixon's by more than birthright. Orange today is affluent, expanding rapidly, suburban in appearance and conservative in politics. It is, in short, a microcosm of the America that may one day yield a national Republican majority. If there were sentimental reasons for re-establishing...
SAMUEL FULLER is probably the greatest social critic among America's film-makers. "Most people say [social contradictions] should be left to the newspapers. But I say, on the contrary, that it is necessary to give them a dramatic form." For Fuller 'giving them a dramatic form' means more than...
The vulnerability of Fuller's characters proceeds naturally from their unity, If events affect them at all they must affect them entirely. The full measure of their engagement in society is seen in their insanity, an insanity all the more disturbing for its lack of sentimental gloss. Only Fuller could...
Such successes collide with the industry-fostered notion that passenger-service advocates are just sentimental buffs. In 1968, the railroads carried a substantial 92 million passengers, not counting commuters. Yet there is no denying one industry contention: the debt-laden railroads cannot afford costly but needed improvements.