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...they spout cant about the lack of law and order or assume mere postures of fear. Alex still gets to screw two teen-age girls, but here he doesn't first get them drunk or shoot them up with horse. Kubrick makes his representatives of the state not only bland, but sexually randy. Most important for audience emotion-letting: out of all the victims seen, only Alex suffers. Kubrick has, in general, turned Burgess around to make apologia for a teen-age hero pitted against decadent oldsters...
...whole final third of Dealing is simple cops and robbers, the kind of material that would even look tired and trite on TV. There is even one sequence--Peter and John sneaking into the proverbial abandoned warehouse to recover the stolen dope--that could be confused with the bland outpourings of the Disney factory. A parody of the Hardy Boys, one member of the premiere audience hollered out, leaving the rest of the audience to wonder if the parody was intended...
...without anger and whites laugh without guilt. "Flip touches more comic bases than anyone else," says Actor and Playwright Ossie Davis (Purlie Victorious). "He retains some of the tradition of the clown as against the comic. A comic is a personality who deals with verbal delivery and usually with bland topics like mothers-in-law and taxes. A clown is a character complete unto himself. Flip Wilson can create characters who stand on their own. He is the most versatile comic spirit in America today...
...guys who are doing their job and who want, out of natural pride, to do it well. That's the most you can say for Friedkin's narcotics cops. But it's the most you can say for most of us in this world, and for projecting that bland truth up onto the silver screen. Friedkin deserves at least mild congratulations...
...Governor Love started to correct the blatant misuse of the land by appointing a seven-man land use commission. Nine months later, it brought forth a basic program and got it approved by the legislature. The Land Use Act seems bland enough. It merely requires each of the state's 63 counties to 1) set up its own planning group, which would be two-thirds funded by the state, and 2) write regulations, based on the commission's model rules, to control the creation of subdivisions...