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...discriminately, used machine guns against tenements, systematically destroyed black-owned property. Even in non-crisis times, as the constant complaints show, the police repress rather than protect black people from crime. Of course blacks want security; but peace must come from self-determination and justice, not from the barrel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REFUTING COLES | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...bank job and needs "something that moves." The rest of the commercial is a hilarious takeoff on the scene from the movie in which the bandits kidnap a young couple. In this case, the unsuspecting Pontiac salesman merrily delivers his pitch-again to a banjo score-while Clyde & Co. barrel down the road with him. At length, they boot him out. Says the salesman, unperturbed: "How are you going to finance it?" Bonnie mutters sullenly: "Finance it, Clyde." Clyde tosses out a satchel of money and drives off, while the salesman, ever the honest fellow, chases them into the fadeout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: The Bonnie & Clyde Caper | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Elvira Madigan tells us we should not dream of it--not on this earth anyway. It does not work. The spirit wastes away from boredom. We are men. We search for the apocalypse. And we find it at the barrel...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Elvira Madigan | 3/14/1968 | See Source »

...world is nothing without it." And Widerberg shows us the truth in his most masterful technical strokes. With his camera lens wide open, the depth of field is reduced, and all we can see is the blade of grass--Elvira's hair, and, in the end, the gray barrel of the pistol. The background--the rest of the world--is blurred: "When you look at the blade of grass, you can see it and nothing else. The rest of the world is blurred," says Sixten...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Elvira Madigan | 3/14/1968 | See Source »

...primaries-must be followed by all the other hopefuls. Last week he challenged Rockefeller's argument that full-scale primary battles would sunder the party. For one thing, he said, a high-minded campaign such as his own would not injure the Republicans but merely add a second barrel to the anti-Democratic gun. Then he invoked a decidedly Democratic name: "As John F. Kennedy said in February of 1960- in Albany, N.Y., incidentally-the time is past when presidential nominees, untested in the primaries, would be named in smoke-filled rooms by political bosses." Thus Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The New Rules of Play | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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