Word: tightass
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ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...
ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...
...week. Everyone put on the Big Dog. The hucklebuckin hambones Afropicked and jerrycurled their cornrows . . . the vatos and street bravos wrapped their cleanest bandannas around Dippity-Doed razorcuts . . . the whiteboys splashed on fifi water . . . the Q Wing punks and B CAT queens greased on party paint and shimmied into tightass state blues...
Soon, everything started caving in. How did radicals relate to the Panthers? What about monogamous sexual relations? What about tightass relations between men? Everybody wanted to take it to a higher level, but revolutionary consciousness was only a few years old. Panthers wanted radicals to pick up the gun, but objectively and subjectively most weren't there yet. A few went on and bombed CFIAs, but the rest waited for fascism, watching the Weathermen's demise...
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