Following the critical swelling around ???M*A*S*H??? (1970) ??? most of it from the pen of New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael ??? he emerged as a progenitor of the New Hollywood, along with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, producing a string of idiosyncratic pictures throughout the ???70s that defied a clear unifying logic ??? the snowy Western ???McCabe and Mrs. Miller