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...children. Rogosin's camera-work starkly captures the cold hostility of Johannesburg; throughout the film there are shots of black and white workers moving, zombie-like, through the dreary streets of the city. These shots repeat throughout the film, setting a motif of alienation that reinforces the brutal racism depicted through Zach's travails...
Perverse? No, the picture is downright subversive, a brutal comic assault on that most basic of institutions, the family. The attack is every bit as relentless, unfair and "tasteless" as Altman's devastation of the military was in M*A*S*H. Although the family is certainly undergoing change and questioning, the director does not have a national mood of disgust (which Viet Nam provided for the earlier picture) to support him. All he has is his own disarming skill as a moviemaker to keep audiences in an accepting mood...
Kenyatta could also be brutal in dealing with official misbehavior?even other people's corruption, if he thought it excessive. Two years ago, he summoned an assistant minister to his office. "Come sit by me, close," said Kenyatta. "Now what is your name...
...situation from the Vietnamese point of view is an increasingly claustrophobic one. Its war with Cambodia shows every sign of being a long-run affair and is a constant drain on national energies. On the other hand, the nature of the brutal Cambodian regime since 1975 is such that even Senator George McGovern?who campaigned for the presidency as a passionate foe of U.S. Viet Nam policy?suggested last week that armed international intervention might be necessary...
...change it. As a financially independent newspaper, The Crimson can control its own editorial policies, often to the dismay of the "authorities." Lacking direct control, they can only try to retaliate, in good capitalist fashion, through the market. Nine years ago, when Crimson editorials protested the University administration's brutal handling of a student strike, the "authorities" encouraged the formation of a new, "conservative" alternative, The Independent. Yet over the years The Independent, too, became sometimes critical of the administration, and now the Faculty's bitter laughter is not piqued by Crimson jokes only. Those students are at it again...