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...tirade against white wickedness, Dutchman makes no more sense than any other noisy blurb for black reaction. But as a dramatic shocker, it hits even harder on the screen than it did on the stage. The camera picks the onlooker up, sits him down hard only two seats away from that subway succubus, and then forces him to sit there with his palms sweating while the danger builds and builds and builds like the brain-stabbing squeal of steel wheels in a turning tunnel...
...have reached one conclusion after reading your latest civil rights blurb. All civil rights marchers plod bravely, with heads held high as befits God's noblest creatures, while surrounded by ignorant, sullen, savage, glowering Mississippians who show resentment and hatred by snarling, cursing, flailing and kicking them. The marchers are protected only by porcine cops who with measured malevolence gas, club and kick them. I wish you paid as much homage to truth as to adjectives...
...days, when Hollywood was still writing its own stuff, a movie "based on" a best-selling novel usually had the blurb: "You've read the book; now see the movie." Mary McCarthy's The Group has definitely been read (certainly Chapters 2 and 6 at the very least) and on the assumption that the public was willing to sit through two hours and forty-five minutes of a dramatized Eight Little Vassar Graduates and How They Grew, Hollywood went ahead. The surprise ending to this familiar pattern is that they've not only turned out a faithful rendering of that...
SSgt. Barry Sadler's best selling album, "Ballads of the Green Berets," purports to fall into this last category, and the jacket blurb is certain, "that many years from now these songs.... will be recalled as a true expression of the Vietnam combat soldier's feelings during the time of that fierce encounter." It's an inviting prospect: elderly Special Forces veterans spinning this disc on their various VFW record players in years to come, and sobbing into their suds. "That's the way it was, man; that's the way it really was." But SSgt. Sadler's collection...
...most appropriate possible place, Iowa's H. R. Gross suggested sourly that the President might hold the beautification-bill ceremony on Route 290 outside Austin, in the shade of a billboard advertising the Johnsons' TV and radio station. (The gibe was late; KTBC had removed the blurb last month.) Protested Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld, who supported the bill: "The Democrats were allowing no time to debate constructive amendments. All we could do was get up and hiccup. That's a helluva lousy way to legislate...