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...part of a Portuguese naval captain, Diogo Cão, who sailed into the mouth of the river in 1482. In Kikongo, the local language, it was called the Mzadi, which means, naturally, "big water." The mangled word survived the centuries in the name of a town, Santo Antonio do Zaire, on the Angola side of the river, where Portugal still maintains a colonial government by force of arms...
...subsidies, buyers in certain parts of the country get extra advantages. In California, for example, where the climate eliminates the need for deep foundations and basements, a $25,000 house is usually bigger and has more fixtures than a comparable model in the Midwest. Another bargain area is San Antonio, Texas, where land and labor costs are low. The worst area for house hunters is the high-priced, heavily unionized Northeast. Nationally, the average price of a new house including land is now $25,000, compared with $23,400 last year. Most builders see prices continuing to rise...
...laughter aside, the chief virtue of Millhouse lies in the hatred it so provokes. For, unlike De Antonio's other documentaries (Point of Order. Year of the Pig), Millhouse eschews an analytic framework except for its constant reminders of the temptations that media politics possess for the political candidate (for although Nixon is its top banana, other national pols also appear in the film to stand similarly condemned). And yet, I would not be prepared to admit that Millhouse is a film that speaks only to those already converted to a hatred of President Nixon. Numerous though they...
...wander down memory lane with the Nixon of our collective past than by means of the very medium which long ago salvaged his career. Still. I'm not all that happy with the proposition. Ninety-three minutes of uninterrupted TV can be a wearing experience, ultimately making De Antonio's film appear longer and less well constructed than it is. And, while I'm prepared to accept the current wisdom that video is indeed the wave on which the future will be found a coming in. I still get the uneasy feeling that to watch Millhouse by a television screen...
There will be those, I suspect, who'll deery Roth--as they've already decried De Antonio--for the simplicity of his attack. To do so is to miss his point. Millhouse and Our Gang are simple, direct attacks because the object of their fury himself chooses to take so simple-minded a tack in his relationship with the American people. In burlesqueing such simplicity. Roth and De Antonio can only hope to force some concern over the degenerate state into which political language has fallen. Our Gang is hardly a partisan effort. Although there is a curiously inconsistent logic...