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...Zachariah...
...Died. Zachariah ("Zack") Davis Wheat, 83, Brooklyn Dodger hero for nearly two decades; of a heart attack; in Sedalia, Mo. From his first season as a Dodger in 1909, Wheat's trademarks were a distinctive shimmy in the batter's box and a screaming line drive that earned him the 1918 National League batting title, a lifetime average of .317, and election to baseball's Hall of Fame. Once characterized as "165 Ibs. of scrap iron, rawhide and guts," Wheat set team records for total hits (2,804), games played (2,318) and times...
Director George Englund is the man who produced the papal soap opera Shoes of the Fisherman, and last year made a rock-'n 'roll western entitled Zachariah. Thus Snow Job hardly comes as a surprise...
...Zachariah, with Country Joe and the Fish, UFO Orson Welles Cinema...
What does not hang well in this Blood Knot is the awkward handling of the asides and soliloquies that reveal the brothers' fears about color: Zachariah's awakening to the constraints his blackness will impose and Morris's guilt for passing as white. That apartheid distorts their lives is evident when they panic at Ethel's proposed visit, but the symbolic ballet of their hatred for each other's color seems a detached, out-of-joint afterthought to the play...