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...visitor was not impressed by America: "The desperate contests between the North and the South; the iron curb and brazen muzzle fastened upon every man who speaks his mind . . . The stabbings and shootings, the coarse and brutal threatenings exchanged between Senators under the very Senate's roof, the intrusion of the most pitiful, mean, malicious, creeping, crawling, sneaking party spirit intc all transactions of life ... I believe the heaviest blow ever dealt at Liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth." The date: 1842. The commentator: Novelist...
...Daring the first quarter, it appeared that either team could claim to be the best, or the worst, in the city. Passing by both sides was erratic, and most of the action was brutal body contact in pursult of the many ground balls...
...early '60s, laughter came to serve dual functions. By mocking the black's own intolerable position, it bolstered his emerging self-awareness as he marched on Selma and Washington. At the same time, it pricked the white's guilt feelings by chastening him for years of brutal apathy, then soothed his conscience with the balm of newfound empathy. Says Black Comic Stu Gilliam: "Until we marched in the streets, no one was interested in what the black man had to say. That's why we didn't have talking acts per se-only singing...
...according to Werner Barm, a top East German party man who defected to the West last August, they defer to "his skill, his solidly based knowledge, his sense of justice, and not least his secure and reserved appearance." Yet it was Stoph who ran East Germany's brutal secret police after the war and, as Defense Minister later on, set up East Germany's goose-stepping army...
Such unabashed populism pervades many of Ebert's columns. He has castigated horror films for sending seven-year-olds into nervous tears and deplored an "obscenely brutal" hunting film presented as "family" entertainment. But Ebert can also defend the balletic, bloody violence in The Wild Bunch on the grounds that, like a child's mock shootout, it is "no more real than dozens of gunfights I have already survived in the company of Rex Allen, Hopalong Cassidy and John Wayne." Nor is he prudish when it comes to a well-turned dash of décolletage. "If there...