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...There was even flak from his mother-in-law "I idolize Curt," said 91-year-old Maude Maitland a staunch Republican, "but I'm very, very disappointed. Mihai Patrichi LeMay's boss at California's Networks Electronic Corp,, declared: "Wallace is a no-good bum. He just like the dictators when they got started in Europe. May's former colleagues in the Pentagon were also worried. Said one officer: "He's not helping us one damned...
...plays like a Black Power version of Secret Storm. Its climactic carnival scene is as baroque as the conclusion of Sinatra's Some Came Running. Stacy Keach, of MacBird, is left with nothing to do. His character, a thirties radical in the novel, has been reduced to a drunken bum (someone was afraid to dirty their camera in politics). And Singer's mute friend is grossly overplayed. I don't object to the elimination of these characters--that is the film's perogative--but I must take issue with such cardboard remains...
...high percentage for an elementary school. Although the enrollment is predominantly Negro, 33 teachers are white. Thirty are under 25. Many are recent graduates of Columbia, Yale, Chicago, and other blue-chip colleges. Belittling his own plain-cut clothes, Principal Lee, a Chinese American, says: "I'm a bum-but most of my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits...
...Wilhelm Vill, 59, an immigrant steelworker from Estonia, asked two policemen in Lincoln Park for help. Before he could finish telling them about his son, Vill said, they approached him with their billy clubs ready. While one grabbed his arm, the other asked: "What do you want, you rotten bum?" Taken to the station house, Vill, a nondrinker, was booked on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct...
Poor Strange falters in the line of duty and gets sent up for a couple of years. Bum rap, that, but the audience is treated worse: sitting through The Strange Affair is as bad as a stretch of solitary...