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Within the military, Calley friend and Calley foe alike agreed that the President's motives were political. In Viet Nam, SP/5 Willy Rowand of Sunshine Harbor, N.J., observed: "Nixon is playing politics, of course." Said Captain Leroy Saage of San Antonio: "It is a political decision, coinciding in part with the mail he's been getting. Nixon has also implied that he feels the verdict is unjust. It gives the public an impression that Nixon has no faith in military jurisprudence...
Vagueness and insubstantiality are the qualities at hand when Antonio Parr wakes up in the morning. Parr is a man in his 30s who has a small private income and has worked without delight as a teacher, a failed novelist and a junk sculptor. "I resorted as little as possible to welding," explains the hero of Frederick Buechner's ruefully funny new novel, "but used balance wherever I could or the natural capacity of one odd shape to fit somehow into or on top of or through another-entirely autobiographical, in other words-the idea being to leave...
...Government can pay all but 1% of the interest rate on each buyer's mortgage. Typical example: helped by the Government, a family of four with $375 a month pretax income can buy a $15,150 three-bedroom ranch home from Builder Ray Ellison of San Antonio for $200 down and $75 a month, including fire insurance and realty taxes. To buy the same house, a family whose income exceeds the Section 235 limits ($875 a month) would have to stand $600 in down payments plus closing costs, and the monthly payments would...
...they been treated from a detached critical point of view, both these scenes would have been embarrassing exercises in heavy-handed social commentary. But seen through Antonio's eyes, even the most obvious political points are somehow ingenuous and therefore palatable. His witless incomprehension makes him a hero by default. All the characters are mere sticks, but Antonio is an appealing stick. In a world of universally despicable characters passivity becomes a positive virtue...
SAURA defines his politics by opposition, and Antonio's resistance to his own recovery is the kind of interior revulsion against capitalism that Saura wants most of all to present. Perhaps the best example of this comes toward the end of the film when Antonio has recovered sufficiently to walk and mumble vague desires. He asks to be taken out in a boat. His wife, thinking it a moment of nostalgia for their honeymoon, joyfully rows him out from shore. But once on the lake, Antonio begins rocking the boat spasmodically, pathetically slapping at his wife with an oar, muttering...