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Coogan's Bluff, Donald Siegel's second film of 1968 falls just short of Madigan by virtue of less serviceable writing and blunter editing. Nonetheless, anyone willing to bypass an unfortunate reliance on convention gets caught up in a compelling and consequential morality play, honestly acted and extraordinarily well filmed...
...need in the South. Liberals might rosily dream of the day when all little children could grow up together to love and understand each other at integrated schools; and their main objection to segregated schools seems to be that the children aren't growing up to love and understand. Blunter Northerners see no real danger in separate-but-equal schools; just like blacks marry blacks and whites marry whites, they say, people want to be with their own. Why force them together...
...Unregulated rates, he said, would cause brokers to switch a good deal of trading from the exchange floor to their offices, creating splintered markets in which ordinary investors would have trouble buying or selling at fair prices. Chairman Gustave L. Levy of the N.Y.S.E. board of governors was even blunter. Justice's proposal, he said, would convert the Big Board into a mere "quotation bureau with limited activity." The reason is that many large firms, including Goldman, Sachs & Co., of which Levy is a senior partner, would be likely to quit the exchange altogether...
Barthelme uses a somewhat blunter instrument in Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning, a character study of the politician composed of paragraphs and fragments of popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is an exhilarating experiment in the dynamics of hero-making, though its effectiveness depends too obviously on which way the reader's political bias leans...
...California, have discovered another source of supply. Instead of searching out and buying an old VW, they just steal one off the streets-with deplorable impunity. The angry owner of a missing blue beetle would never recognize his car as it whines by him on a beach-shorter, blunter and tangerine...