Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backlash reaction in the electorate. The issue will change from the U.S.'s role in Southeast Asia to whether student demonstrators are threatening the fabric of American society. Faced with the prospect of defending sometimes violent demonstrators, many liberals will either defend them and go down to defeat, or swing to the right. The only way to bring the war to an end is to try to elect an anti-war majority in Congress...
...their displeasure with student disruptions. If the blue collar workers in New York City knew what James Buckley stood for in the 1970 Senate election, he never would have gotten 65 per cent of the Catholic vote. A number of liberals, like Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois, had to swing sharply to the right in order not to risk alienating blue collar whites. Instead of educating the electorate about the tragedy of our intervention in Southeast Asia, Stevenson spent much of his time explaining why he named Thomas Foran, the prosecutor of the Chicago Seven, his campaign chairman...
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This ambiguity gives Man on a Swing its suspense and makes it a rather entertaining diversion. What makes it something more than this is Joel Grey's Franklin Wills, a performance of such menacing subcurrents, so shrewdly and subtly conveyed, that it galvanizes the entire film. Grey won an Oscar for his nightclub M.C. in Cabaret, a splendidly sleazy characterization that seemed to grow out of his years in the musical theater. Here he takes a considerable risk, moving in an entirely different direction. He has a lot of broad, bizarre business to carry off- like passing into...
...would have been far more interesting to use the same material for a film about Wills - that is, both a psychological and psychic speculation. But on the evidence at hand, such a project would have been beyond the range of almost everyone involved with Man on a Swing - firmly excepting Joel Grey...