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...dazzling Southwest scenery is present in abundance, but it is functional, not merely decorative. And whenever the movie moves indoors, usually to a saloon, the sets-however slickly photographed-are appropriately dark and tumbledown, as if some New Mexico ghost town had been converted into a sound stage...
...small town offers some special Wilsonian satisfactions. It is pleasant, he notes among other things, to have the cemetery so close, "where I can look up family dates." Yet his memory of Talcottville as "a clean and trim settlement" soon proves out of date. Some of its houses are "tumbledown" and "squalid," its citizens "ambitionless." Highways are closer and larger. Birch Society posters recommend impeaching Earl Warren. Teen-age motorcyclists ride across the lawn and drink on Wilson's porch, forcing him to scare them away "with a roar and the ancient gun that a Civil War collector...
...like that of Zasu Pitts." Perelman is making a pass at a beautiful colleen (all his women are beautiful but for lips or nostrils that are a trifle too sensuous, a figure a shade too voluptuous) and: "I was just about to propose that we hie ourselves to a tumbledown shack in Athlone when a behemoth the size of Brian Boru, a great loogan with ropes around his corduroys, clumped into the snug." Her fiance, Rory McClobber...
Only a few years ago, Dr. Smith would have had no hospital privileges, except in tumbledown quarters reserved for Negroes. For almost a century, "segregationists had a neatly effective exclusion device: hospital appointments were open only to members of the county medical societies. And the societies were exclusively white. For 29 years, the A.M.A. gently "urged" member groups to integrate, but few did. Smith was among the Negro doctors who embarrassed the A.M.A. by picketing its 1963 convention. The A.M.A. made its urgings a bit stronger. The Hinds County Medical Society was among those that yielded. It admitted Smith...
...Pentagon's "Bombing Encyclopedia" for North Viet Nam lists 18,000 potential targets, ranging from a tumbledown bamboo bridge over a little-used canal to Ho Chi Minh's Hanoi headquarters. Only 5,000 of them are considered militarily significant, and most can be attacked at the Pentagon's discretion. Between 350 and 400 politically sensitive targets have been referred to President Johnson for his personal approval to raid them. To date, he has given the go-ahead on all but approximately...