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Last Thursday only our cheerleaders were in form. And as City fumbled away an early drive, the pattern of the last four years prevailed. Poly's squad, an amalgam of working class whites and northwest Baltimore blacks, stomped my alma mater...
Like masters of more exalted arts, Cartoonist Walt Kelly succeeded in turning an imaginary landscape into a public preserve. With pen and wit he put together the world of Pogo, an inspired amalgam of bogs, hollow stumps, hog-jowl dialect and cheery absurdity. There, over 150 anthropomorphic critters gnawed away at the English language, baring kernels of political meaning, and carried on not-so-innocent satires of human pomposity. Phineas T. Bridgeport, the Barnum of bears, orated in billboard letters that burlesqued hucksterism everywhere. "Nuclear physics ain't so new and it ain't so clear," declared Rowland...
...magazine reflects the fireside approach that always characterized Cousins' editing of the old SR: chatty editorials; decorously risible cartoons; spacious, ambling feature articles on topics that interest Cousins. SR/ World offers reportorial reach along with the literary and cultural interests of the old SR, and the amalgam so far seems to work. The first issue featured some solid reporting by Horace Sutton on the Cuban community in Miami and its links with Watergate. In the same issue, Novelist Herbert Gold contributed a lyrical review of John Dos Passos' letters and diaries, concluded that the novelist was "a person...
...battered, flattened, ridiculed - and still plays on, as much for the audience as for himself. (After all, who ends up paying for those $70,000-a-minute commercials - and those $100,000 bonuses?) In the process, the viewer receives a game of infinite hue and complexity, an amalgam of ballet, combat, chess and mugging. No matter how fine his TV reception, no beer-and-armchair quarterback can hope to see the true game. For all the paraphernalia, the tube rarely shows an overview; pass patterns and geometric variations are lost in a kaleidoscope of closeups and crunches...
...suffered in the French Indochina wars. The friendship between the two might easily be merely touching or sentimental, but Bourguinon presents it with such range of feeling that Sundays and Cybele is one of the most genuinely moving films of the past decade. Stylistically, the film is a fascinating amalgam of the techniques of the French New Wave, but it adds a rare human element to its style and so achieves a quality matched by only a few of the early New Wave films...