Word: thunderbolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is no evidence of a membership boom in fascist political organizations in the U.S. The National States Rights Party, Cowan's outfit, claims some 20,000 members in 100 or more chapters. Experts place its membership at only 1,000, though its hate sheet, Thunderbolt, apparently prints 15,000 copies each month. Based in Marietta, Ga., the party is headed by Lawyer J.B. Stoner, a longtime bigot given to saying things like "There's no point in our going out and shooting Jews and niggers because we couldn't get rid of them that...
...inductees are all deserving of their plaques. Rusie, the famed "Hoosier Thunderbolt" of the 1890s, died in 1942. He won more than 30 games a season three times and has a winning percentage of .603. Rusie was also the first major leaguer ever to sit out a season over a contract dispute, as he refused to sign with the Giants...
...surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order of last year's under rated Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (which also starred Bridges). Instead, all it offers is conventional, well-paced entertainment, which provides an inadequate context for a few sudden shows of genuine strength...
...Saiqa was established by Syria in 1967 and is still largely funded by Damascus. Led by Zuheir Mohsen, 45, Saiqa (Thunderbolt) consists of possibly 2,000 men, including about 1,000 full-time guerrillas. Most of them are Palestinian refugees who fled to Syria. More military than political, Al Saiqa is little more than an unofficial auxiliary of the Syrian army...
...movie is shaky when the friendship between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is sentimentalized, and at the end, when invention gives in to a mawkish resolution. But all the performers are excellent, and Eastwood unwinds a little from his customary characterization of a terse, razor-eyed stranger, breaking through to a kind of boyish affability. Cimino himself renders most of the movie with enough cunning to make it one of the most ebullient and eccentric diversions around...