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Refeison builds this complicated potpourri on bogus techniques. Again and again he cuts into the middle of a scene, in an overcalculated bid for involvement. Or he mystifies with new angles until perspective exposes the banality of his subject. This is tinplate Godard, confusing instead of intellectually surprising. Take for instance, the scene of David's train arrival. He steps onto a deserted platform and confronts a raucously singing spike-heeled floozy who throws open her fur coat to reveal a chintzy Miss America costume. Then four creatures who look like skid row relics show up with battered horns...
Crimson pressman Pal Sorrento and his colleagues ran off 5000 copies, and a determined team of editors barreled down the Mass Pike to New Haven to distribute the bogus-papers at all Yale dorms early Saturday morning...
...third major issue for Peck is the district's need for a full-time representative, which he promises he will be if elected. Mahoney says it's a bogus issue because he has had a 99 per cent attendance record at the House, and has found sufficient time to do the committee work required of all legislators. "It's like academics," Mahoney said recently. "Some people can work 20 hours a day and accomplish nothing. Other people can accomplish much more in a relatively short period of time...
Nixon laid out the bogus comparison himself: "I express the appreciation of all of the delegates and of all America for letting us see young America at its best at our convention." The implication was that while the youth on the streets outside Convention Hall were young America at its worst, the McGovern forces were not far behind...
...flush out his life, however. Bogus flees his family and goes to Austria to search for a diabetic friend, who unbeknown to him has died-another illusory hero image. What follows vacillates between brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. Eventually, Bogus comes to see himself as Moby Dick, "mindful of his scars, his old harpoons and things," knowing that his very endurance is in itself monumental...