Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task in organizing and canvassing a nation than they did in taking on primary states in sequence. So far, only about 15 key organizers are set to go. There is a strong network of massive manpower available at lower levels, however, in about 35 states, where McGovern's superb organizations blitzed delegate caucuses and primary elections. The McGovern staff is trying to bring local candidates and professional politicians into his cause and will offer cooperative candidates the aid of this volunteer pool in their campaigns for lesser offices. The young enthusiasts will readily work with the regular Democratic organizations...
...adult black actor who plays the young Macunaima is a superb comedian: strutting almost spastically in a yellow sack, he combines the goonish petulance of Jerry Lewis with exaggerated indolence and lasciviousness. Yet he is still such a child that his mother, who sleeps beneath him in the lower of two hammocks, takes an umbrella with...
Ride the High Country. Sam Peckinpah's superb second feature, one of the best American films of the '60's. Though elegiac in tone, the film recognizes the death of the frontier and of heroic values along with it. And some very modern psychological truths are introduced in incredible scenes at a mining camp, Sunday, noon, CHANNEL...
...extreme views, he retains an aura of conviction and simplicity. No one really knows whether his success has welled from some deep voter malaise with the way things are -and a concomitant if unfocused demand for change, even along McGovern lines -or whether it has happened because of his superb and dedicated organization...
Still, there are some excellent things in Hannie Cuulder. Hurt Kennedy's direction is robust, the scene about learning to shoot a pistol is superb, and the homicidal Three Stooges - Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin (both of The Wild Bunch) and Jack Elam - are the best bad guys around...