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lorry kubert
The Candidate
creeping corruption
Review by Doug Beckwith
The Candidate is a movie about corruption, not the
honestly open type we have learned to know and recognize in
movies like The Godfather, but the dishonest mental
corruption that twists the mind and effectively washes all that
gray matter. We have come to know politics as a gradual
corruption of individual values and ideas for electoral success.
The Candidate is about those politics.
A senatorial election is at stake in California. Crocker
Jarmon, played by Don Porter, is the Republican incumbent
who has lost touch with the people.
A would-be king maker, who is in fact the bearded Peter
Boyle, is in search for a Democratic hopeful with new energy
and vitality and political anonymity who might rise in
challenge to Crocker's strangling Republican grip.
And who should he find but young John McKay, a
handsome, idealistic Stanford lawyer, played by Robert
Redford. "John McKay for the Better Way" reads his
campaign slogan.
The film deals with the loss of McKay's political innocence
and his manipulation, as a puppet, of rhetoric and ambiguity.
Director Michael Ritchie intentionally presents his candidate
as a consumer product. The production and projection of
numerous televised political commercials throughout the film
force us to be a part of the artificiality involved in the selling
of a candidate.
We ultimately see McKay win his election, not because of
his talent or the idealism he once championed, but because he
has proved a saleable commodity.
One problem in creating this type of pseudo-documentary
film is that it very seldom has the vitality and spontaneity of
the thing. The Candidatte' political conventions are dull and
lifeless in spite of the trumped-up tinsel. We know they are not
real for we know what the real thing is like. Unfortunately,
these conventions set a deadly pace felt dragging throughout
the entire mov'".
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Tower of Power
follows BS &T
It's strange how often a musical group comes
along with a smash single that everyone says is
great and fantastic, and this smash single gets so
much air play that it rapidly becomes boring.
Then the group comes out with an album with
the single on it, and after hearing the album,
people wonder why some of the other songs
weren't given single releases also.
This is the "problem" that San
Francisco-oriented Tower of Power found
themselves in when Warner Bros, released their
album, Bump City, with their smash single,
"You're Sti II a Young Man," on it.
Tower of Power is a young 10-member soul
band which places emphasis on heavy rhythm
and brass. Bump City is their second Ip, but
"Young Man" is their first successful single.
Not trvina to take anything away from
Roberta Flack . . . soul, gospel and jazz
artist will appear in concert at Pershing
Auditorium on Friday at 8 p.m.
"Young Man' I wonder why a couple of the
other cuts on the album weren't released as
singles instead. Specifically, "Flash in the Pan,"
"Gone," "You strike My Main Nerve" and
"Down to the Nightclub" are all better songs
then "Young Man."
"Flash in the Pan," "You Strike my Main
Nerve" and "Down to the Nightclub" grab you
by the ears and don't let go until they've kicked
you all the way down the street. The
instrumentals and vocals are above par on these
three cuts. And "Gone," written and sung by
Skip Mesquite, is a hauntingly beautiful love
ballad that bnnqs back memories.
It has been said that Tower of Power is the
group which will fill the void left by Blood,
Sweat and Tears. Well, I hate to disappoint
anyone, but BS&T ain't dead yet. Although the
band has gone through some reorganization,
David Clayton-Thomas, Fred Lipsius and Dick
Halligan have left BS&T, they've been replaced
by four very adequate musicians in Jerry
Fisher, George Wadenius, Lou Marini Jr. and
Larry Willis and from some reports BS&T is as
good, if not better, than they were.
Speaking earlier of soul, Roberta Flack will
be at Pershing Auditorium Friday at 8 p.m.
Vocalist-pianist Flack has three albums to her
credit, First Take, Chapter Two and Quiet
Fire and a nice, nice single 'The First Time
Ever I Saw Your Face," which is from the
movie Play Misty for Me. But Flack's
mainstream is soul, gospel and jazz, and boy
does she kick it out!
On Saturday at 8 p.m. at Pershing rising
from the "grease" era of rock will be Jocko,
Bruno, Jof, Screamin', 'The Kid", Bauser,
Lenny, Donny, Chris, Gino and Butch, better
known as Sha Na Na. Appearing with Sha Na
Na will be Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks and a
group known in this area, Bumpy Action.
And regarding films, the Union Weekend
Films Committee has The Andromeda Strain
and part of a Buck Rogers serial on tap for
Friday and Saturday in the Nebraska Union
Small Auditorium and on Sunday in the East
Campus Union. Times are 7 and 10 p.m. on
Friday and Saturday and 7 p.m. on Sunday.
The Special Films Committee is bringing
back Wind From the East and 7o The Loved
Ones Back Home on Tuesday, Sept. 12. The
films will be shown in the Sheldon Gallery
Auditorium at 3, 7, and 9 p.m. Admission is $1.
There will be a faculty recital by George
Ritchie, organist, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, in
Kimball Recital Hall.
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daily nebraskan
friday, September 8, 1972
