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...gets soaked when it comes charging down a dry canal. Walks out. Shot of his feet. Curses his leaky Florsheims. And then up walks director Polanski as a short little tough with a foreign accent, who puts a knife in the detective's nostril and makes a little slice to remind him not to be nosey...
Still, one is almost grateful for this opportunity to muse once again over the asininity of the rating system, since the rest of this predictable slice of frontier life (the setting is California's Big Sur country) offers almost nothing to think about. Hannah's response to her groom's welcome is to teach him table manners. He makes some progress toward civility, but he keeps getting distracted. Late in the film he is still capable of driving a herd of cattle through her vegetable garden purely as an exercise in cussedness...
...Devine see any diminished appetite. Nixon ate his crab claws with gusto as the Sequoia plied the waters of the Potomac. He chewed through a good slice of roast beef, ate carrots and beans, polished the meal off with ice cream...
...film clips and a torrent of journalism did not? After all the surfeits of that war-the distant carnage, the fallout of casualties closer to home, the national agony of consciousness and political dislocation in the U.S.-can the imagination of a storyteller offer anything more than a few slice-of-death memories...
...Populists, who forged a brief political alliance between poor whites and blacks--was fragile. Appeals to white supremacy could and did tap lurking Southern white fears that interracial cooperation could lead directly to amalgamation. So in the broad sense, class interests were less controlling than race. But a large slice of the other Southerners whom Degler depicts as opposing slavery and secession have business class interests more in concert with rising Northern industrialism than with languishing Southern agrarianism. From Degler's portraits, Cassius Marcellus Clay of Kentucky, Hinton Rowan Helper (author of The Impending Crisis of the South...