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...they also pull off a split-screen chase scene that puts The Thomas Crown Affair to shame. As Angel and Laurie, William Smith and Valerie Starrett (the director's wife) make up in enthusiasm what they lack in finesse. Angel is obviously and deeply indebted to Bonnie and Clyde, and even more to Nicholas Ray's 1949 They Live by Night, but anyone who expects a work as accomplished as those will be bitterly disappointed. Angel is one of those curious films that surprise and gratify simply because they manage somehow to be better than they should have...
Apart from a dogmatic, astringent manner, Miss Sontag does not specifically resemble Miss McCarthy. She is, for one thing, far more "serious." By comparison, the younger McCarthy seems a kind of Vassar gun moll, playing Bonnie to the Clyde of Dwight Macdonald and other Partisan Reviewers of the 1930s and 1940s. Styles have changed. The vices (and virtues) of cleverness have now been replaced by the virtues (and vices) of relentlessly with-it seriousness. Susan Sontag-complete with academic sojourns at Oxford and the Sorbonne, and stints as a philosophy teacher-has proved to be just the girl to play...
...Isname) but none so consummately awful as this. He allows Reed to sway and scowl across the screen like an English Jack Palance, while Michael J. Pollard, as the benighted guerrilla chief, quickly exhausts his repertoire of puckish expressions. Since he attracted attention in Bonnie and Clyde, Pollard has turned into a mumbling buffoon whose limited talents are perfectly in harmony with the selfconscious, self-indulgent, elephantine whimsy of Hannibal Brooks...
...report. We wish simply to have a say in this most vital matter. I for am tired of standing aside while the fate of black studies is decided, and I would urge the Faculty to accept the Afro proposal immediately and put an end to this lack of communication. CLYDE E. LINDSAY
...herewith state and affirm our intention not to rest until these demands are met, and urge all students who wish to prevent a recurrence of the present crisis as well as the continuation of Harvard's present irresponsibility to join us until these goals are achieved. LEE A. DANIELS CLYDE E. LINDSAY