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...inconsistencies that cloud the basic narrative thrust of the film. A twenty-one-year-old carpenter from Mel Lyman's Fort Hill commune, allowed to fuse his beliefs with his part, is not going to esndorse a set of volatile character traits compatible with buying guns and menacing policemen ( Avatar, remember, endorsed Robert Kennedy's candidacy as the hope of the Nation). Less important but equally troubling, it is to be hoped that a San Francisco dancer as lovely as Miss Halprin does not make love stoned and simultaneously imagine Joe Chakin's Open Theatre doing it along with...
Mark Frechette, who is a carpenter in Boston's Avatar commune, is not quite as painful to watch in the male lead. He is most believable when he is pissed off, and he is supposed to be pissed off as the movie opens. But he forgets to shed his toughness with the rest of his defensive facade when he enters the desert to love. We know he is cool and daring only after he lists all the nifty, anti-establishment pranks he has pulled...
...seem to make the transition to the flower- power scene. He was too much the dirty bum, the dope fiend, the sinner redeemed through his sin, innocent the whole way, embarrassingly sincere, impatient, hostile, one of the most generous souls of his time, a creator of the American underground, avatar of the ones who could not fight the Nova Police because there were too few of them, and they would have been crushed: William Burroughs. Gregory Corse, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac. So they...
...leave New York. One can only conclude the editor included it and put it in its prominent page six position to suggest that there is not even a Correct Line on your attitude to New York City. Jon Maslow's "Dylan Piece," a reprint from Avatar, tells us how great Dylan is, partly in Dylan's own words. Maslow also contributes "The Tower," an allegorical story about a tower which the people build and then destroy...
...Michael Arlen's immediate subject in The Living Room War is not the staggering charnel house we live in and which lives on us. It is that small, luminous, oracular, electronic avatar called television. Arlen is in passionate agreement with Richard Goodwin who writes: "We pass through all this tumult seated before the inexorable shadows of a TV set-certainly the greatest psychic disturber ever created...