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...revolution. Some trashing and some attempts at stirring up the campus proletariat have gotten to be routine around here and they don't impress anybody. The activities of last week made up a legitimate and resounding demand for an immediate end to America's latest bungling overseas caper. The kind of stuff planned for next week will do nothing but detract from the impact of last week's march and veterans' action." For his part, the President at Thursday's news conference spoke respectfully of the demonstrators; there was none of last year...
...frown on dealing in marijuana -after all, it is against the law-the authors describe passing the stuff as just an exhilarating sport. By treating grass with such lightheartedness, the Crichton boys send a controversial message directly to a wide audience. Dealing, etc., is not really about a flip caper; it is a subliminal plea to legalize...
...they still make movies like this. The question is why. Surely there is a considerable surplus of these caper epics, involving the intricate mechanics of some complicated robbery scheme and the assorted tensions and rivalries, professional or romantic, among the people who carry them through. Gambit, Topkapi, How to Steal a Millionthe list seems endless. But the genre is not, as Perfect Friday proves...
...young man!" He watches a bunch of blacks mug a white man and woman in a seemingly random, senseless fashion. His more sober-minded comrades, living for "the Revolution," mechanize LNS and then viciously torture his friends to recover the equipment Mungo's friends have stolen in their big caper. He discovers that the Movement's members can be more than just disagreeable. Writing of his meeting with Eldridge Cleaver in his pre-Algerian days, he says: "He [Cleaver] told us to be wary of supporting everybody who called himself a revolutionary, that some of these revolutionaries were, you know...
Unlikely Zealot. For the past two years, the Fox has been the scourge of those he considers polluters in Illinois' Kane County, west of Chicago. He has plugged offending sewers, capped spewing chimneys, left ripe skunks on the suburban doorsteps of company executives. At the scene of every caper, he leaves a note explaining that the particular victim is getting back a bit of his own for defiling the environment...