Word: vet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relentless, gave half of her acceptance speech in sign language "because there are 14 million deaf people in this country." New York Daily News Critic Rex Reed wrote bitchily that it "looked like an audition for The Miracle Worker. ") Jon Voight, who played opposite Fonda as a paraplegic vet, won the Best Actor award...
...vets, one of the war's most troublesome legacies is a pervasive disenchantment, unregistered by statistics and unsolved by legislative programs. It is caused by the feelings that the service they rendered was meaningless and the nation's anguish and anger over Viet Nam were transferred unfairly to them. Not long ago, a Viet Nam veteran in Minneapolis was asked if there was anything he would particularly like to say to Max Cleland when the VA chief arrived in the city for a scheduled visit. The vet brooded for a moment, then replied, half sardonically, half plaintively...
Voight's performance is a disappointment after his realistic portrayal of a Viet Nam vet in Coming Home. The champ should be a sweet, dumb lug, but Voight comes off as an actor playing a sweet, dumb lug. He affects a Sylvester Stallone accent, clouds his face with introspective pain and is not for a second convincing...
...rest of the cast, including Douglas, have parts that offer little depth of characterization. Douglas breezes through his role as an angry Vietnam vet-turned-freelance cameraman. The utitility company executives are all shown as thoroughly evil, motivated only by greed, while Godell's fellow technicians at the plant simply take orders--until well after the critical moment...
Verdict for a troubled vet...