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...Marred by grainy film and fleshed out with documentary and pseudo-newsreel footage of the '20s, the film spends too much time on pickles, pushcarts and passersby. But it compensates with a fond, nostalgic score, a bumping, grinding chorus line and a series of closeups of the late Bert Lahr, who plays a retired burlesque comedian. Like Lahr, the film offers an engaging blend of mockery and melancholy...
...BERT SIROTE Far Rockaway...
Other speakers were Jerome Lettvin, M.I.T. professor of biology and electrical engineering, Kenneth L. Tigar, teaching fellow in German, film star Shirley MacLaine, Bert Corona, representative of the Farm Workers Union, and Richard Goodwin, political adviser to McCarthy
...addition to Margin, the panel includes Sterling Patch, M.D., a congenital bureaucrat and head of the Bureau of Infantile Resources Potential, and Bert Rubble, director of a think tank called CEFALOPOD (Center for Attrition, Logistics, Policing and Deterrence). Rubble is by far the most amusing and terrifying character. A high-voltage action-intellectual wired into the highest power sources, he has written a book entitled Think Clear or Die. He wants to apply systems analysis and game theory to the national diaper rash; yet he has the touch of a hip nightclub comic: "I hate to break the news...
...Bert and his lawyers are preparing to fight once more...