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...outcome, as the victorious Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, was "the nearest run thing you ever saw." One week before Election Day, nobody would have believed the race could turn out that way. In August, the party that nominated Humphrey at Chicago was a shambles. The old Democratic coalition was disintegrating, with untold numbers of blue-collar workers responding to Wallace's blandishments, Negroes threatening to sit out the election, liberals disaffected over the Viet Nam war, the South lost. The war chest was almost empty, and the party's machinery, neglected by Lyndon Johnson, creaked...
...scenes in England were shot in cloudy weather, and through the grey obscurity emerge ghastly relics of an earlier, pre-industrial age. Richardson presents a society where the past oppresses the present. Near the beginning of the film, we are shown a huge equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington being drawn through the misty streets of London like a pagan idol. They've had it made, and now they don't know where to put it, someone explains. The statue later comes to rest outside the window of the senile Lord Raglan (John Gielgud), who complains that...
...bitterest enemy in the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority for whom the best building that can be constructed in the city is one that generates the greatest increase in the tax base: twenty-story, high-income high-rises. At the same time he has been instrumental in championing the equally controversial Wellington - Harrington Plan, which would make federal monies available in the form of long-term, low-interest loans that present citizens could afford for private home building of the kind on which East Cambridge depends...
...polished ritual. Speaking from the heart via the TelePrompTer, the President delivered an oration that might have been composed in honor of Wellington, post-Waterloo...
Napoleon Wellington Oedipus Jocasta...