Word: sugarland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this President frequently takes off his coat and works in shirtsleeves. His pipe is handy and in constant use. White House Physician William Lukash believes such little things reduce tedium and tension. Ford likes movies at night but sometimes flakes out. He fell asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen was in the Oval Office taking pictures, a serious avocation of hers, alongside David Hume Kennerly, Ford's cameraman, the President...
...SUGARLAND EXPRESS Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG Screenplay by HAL BARWOOD and MATTHEW ROBBINS
...Sugarland Express is a simple story of a mother's love and the lengths to which a woman possessed by it will go to recover her child when an unfeeling society forces them apart...
...Sugarland, the small Texas town where little Langston does not appear to be missing them...
...neatly balances action, suspense and soft-spoken humor. Best of all, 26-year-old Director Steven Spielberg, in his first feature after a promising start in TV, emerges as a man to watch. It is easy to patronize and satirize simple, down-homish material, even easier to sentimentalize it. Sugarland does neither. It goes straight down the middle of the road toward some modestly stated human truths...