Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with, say, the entire journalistic opus of Tom Wolfe is to be aware that these conservative writers often inhabit a realm of abstraction penetrated at times by only vague eminences from the real world. Contemporary affluence has unleashed innumerable ego-trips, not the pursuit of virtue. The California electrical worker making $23,000 a year does not read Aristotle and Kant, he merely does weird things and is all too willing to have his ego tickled by the media into pursuing alternate life-styles...
...College in Sarasota, Fla., whose father was the juggler Massimiliano Truzzi; Sociologist Patrick Easto of Eastern Michigan University, whose mother was a carnival stripper; and Social Psychologist Theodore Dembroski of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, who was born into a carnival family and takes a job as a carnival worker, or "carnie," every summer...
...Figueres, he intends to renounce U.S. citizenship. He has rented a chalet in a wooded area on the outskirts of San José and parks his private plane -a Boeing 707-at the San José airport. Yet for Vesco, the relentlessly ambitious son of a Detroit auto worker, San José, with no stock market and less than a dozen banks, is a pale substitute for Wall Street and other centers of financial power. As Vesco's problems pile up in the U.S., even this haven is none too snug. The opposition National Unification Party has already pledged...
...deceptively like a brooding scholar with his horn-rimmed glasses, roughhewn features and thatched gray hair. He dispels the image when he speaks, showering listeners with four-letter words in a manner that is both threatening and amiable. Wurf's dogged, determined style has aroused traditionally conservative public workers. "Let's face it," he says, "a guy who's been collecting garbage for 20 years is no militant. But when your employer is some elected official who wants to make a show of keeping down taxes, and the worker is the guy who gets...
Scenarist Shrake has provided some good, funky dialogue, and Frawley is a director who gives his actors time and room to move around in their parts. Warren Gates is exemplary as a factory worker enamored of the ancient Greeks ("They went around barefooted, wearing sheets and other comfortable things, and men could love each other and not be ashamed"). Lee Purcell fetching as his wife. Peter Boyle as a preacher with an interest in aeronautics and narcotics, and Ben Johnson as Mean John make a fine couple of Texas crazies...