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Harlem in the Evening is Gene Bone's adaptation of stuff by Langston Hughes, whose poems cry to be read aloud and ought to make for great theater. This weekend and next at the Loeb...
...headquarters of some independent organizations, newspaper reports of plant closings and other disruptions were eagerly read aloud. Said George Rynn, vice president of the Council of Independent Truckers in Barberton, Ohio: "It's amazing how easily you can shut down this country...
...truth that would make what they suffer meaningful. Again and again in these stories--like almost all Singer's stories, they're stories of Polish Jews or their children in the United States, told in slightly humorous, simple sentences that probably lose something for not being read aloud--the fear that what happens to people is not meant to make sense reappears. "Nu, one mustn't know everything," says a bearded woman in one of the book's weaker stories, in which Singer gives so little hint what his story means or might mean that it's just tantalizing...
...film's most admirable aspect is its relatively evenhanded portrayal of Stone's politics. At one point, Stone, a former communist anarchist, ridicules Nixon's pose as peacemaker: "He thinks he's Mahatma Nixon, a man in a loin cloth." But later, Stone, the self-proclaimed "counterrevolutionary," wonders aloud before a student audience whether youthful revolutionary fervor might not be the product of unresolved adolescent crises. Without criticizing Stone's published work in depth, Bruck at least does justice to his subject's conflicting impulses...
Means and Banks made statements about Indian solidarity and wondered aloud why the jury panel was all white. Network reporters began to wander out, and local cameramen started shooting footage of onlookers instead of the speakers. Then Kunstler predicted that the government's case would flop in the Wounded Knee trial, just as it has in every other political trial of the last few years...