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Sir: TIME is correct in pointing out the aura of bafflement surrounding the Angela Davis affair [Oct. 26]. Miss Davis is variously described as "brilliant," "cerebral," "rational," and we are told that she chose active membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. because of her commitment to strict Marxist rationality. But...
"WE MUST make the state a reality," Louis tells the queen mother, then sets out to do just the opposite. He manufactures, instead, a state mythology, complete with forms and rituals usurped from Catholicism, infused, sui generis, with an illusion of order. "One rules minds," he tells Colbert, "by appearances...
"Virtue is not the same as effectiveness," says Hoederer the Pragmatic revolutionary to Hugo his idealistic secretary and future assassin. This dichotomy runs behind the bourgeois display and ultimate vacuity of this production, just as it engenders the futile dilemma in Hugo's life. Hugo is the rich boy turned...
The next sequence, though rather narrative and naturalistic, continues to mingle objects and images in such a way that every object demands to be read as if it were a statement. Elio Petri, the director, staged this scene in a studio furnished in modish plastic furniture and embellished with useless...
Analysis, though, turns out to be a mixed blessing. After the end of this film and in the middle of Leo the Last. I began feeling very sick and at length had to leave the theater. I know exactly what caused it too, even without having felt it before: sitting...