Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regions, Carter is in best shape in the South, which has not had one of its own in the White House since Tennessee's Andrew Johnson in 1865-69. Cracked his friend and adviser Charles Kirbo, with considerable hyperbole: "Jimmy's got the black vote. He's got the rednecks. Ain't nobody else...
...help. It keeps turning up yokel lines like, "Paris - that's near Europe and Asia." Caan and Gould fall back on a series of frantic semaphores to the audience, calling attention to how adorably prankish they are being. Director Mark Rydell's notion of how to give shape to a scene apparently is to make it louder and faster. This does produce an occasional laugh, just as somebody pounding a piano with a baseball bat is bound to produce an occasional musical tone...
...many people, that they are beginning to suffer the indignities of traffic jams, smog, escalating taxes and land costs. The crowning insult, and the most discomfiting of all developments: the suburbs now have suburbs of their own. Even so, to compete at all, the old downtowns had to shape up, and they have...
...their choice of quotations. Recollected events and human voices carry the reader from the first shots (and words) at Lexington in 1775 to a chorus-like finale at Yorktown. Flashes of humor and high spirits lighten the hardships along the way. Washington (on inflation): "A rat in the shape of a horse is not to be found at this time for less than ?200." A very young officer to his wife, after the battle of Princeton: "Oh, my Susan! It was a glorious day and I would not have been absent from it for all the money I ever expect...
Cunliffe's book, though it was written nearly 20 years ago, may still be the best work to begin with. For he confronts the Washington problem head on, not so much telling a life as examining it in an attempt to distinguish the original human shape from the contours of the final monument that patriotic 19th century historians helped erect. Cunliffe's conclusion is that the man and the monument merged even within Washington's lifetime. What we have left must simply pass for the real thing...