Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly expected from The Crimson anything better than Dun Swanson's crude hatchet job on my book, Behind The Berlin Wall. But minimal standards of journalistic honesty might at least have led Swanson to mention some of the book's major themes and findings, so the reader could judge for himself whether, as he argues, the Left should refrain from citicizing regimes like the East German one too loudly...
Kelman has since continued to promulgate his peculiar brand of conservative socialism. His second book, Behind the Berlin Wall, is an account of a two-month stay during 1971 in East Germany. Constant fear haunts our intrepid hero as he risks millenial jail terms to uncover the truth about Communism. He cleverly outwits a couple of commissars who accompany him, and returns to report that things are not good in East Germany: everything breaks all the time, there are not enough refrigerators, telephones or good razor blades--and besides, the people are not free...
...hazy analysis in Behind the Berlin Wall would be faulty from any source, but coming from a professed socialist, it is particularly embarrassing. While Kelman was playing spy in East Germany in 1971, his freedom-loving homeland was sending waves of bombers over Laos and much of Vietnam, attempting to annihilate both a people and a just revolution. The American prosperity Kelman lauded, as usual, was getting new infusions from the Third World, while citizens attempting to 'pressure their government' to end the Vietnam aggression often found themselves in jails. Working people in Detroit and Cleveland trudged...
THIS IS A FUNNY picture about Jews and Gentiles. Not a very original idea, but uniquely successful in this case, because director Elaine May and her daughter Jeannie Berlin work blithely yet subtly within the motif, transforming its simplemindedness into simplicity and its banality into unpretentiousness...
...Jewish guy, marries Lila (Jeannie), a nice Jewish girl, to the strains of that old piano favorite, "I'd like to buy the world a Coke..." On the trip from New York to Miami for their honeymoon, Lila gradually reveals her clumsy, frumpy self (and the wide range of Berlin's comic talents), to the growing dismay of her husband. She proudly thrusts her bare breasts at him in the car, nearly causing an accident. She chews gum loudly, eats candy in bed, and constantly chatters about what their life will be like after 50 years of marriage. Lila suffers...