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Flanked by weeping relatives, a Spanish-American couple sat in the shimmering heat in Sutter Cemetery, holding hands and staring dully at the bronze coffin that held the remains of their 17-year-old son Bobby. Six of Bobby's classmates placed their white carnation boutonnieres on the coffin. Bobby's young niece threw herself on the coffin and sobbed brokenly. Several in the large crowd also cried. Bobby's father silently shook his head a couple of times as though he had been struck, then moved woodenly with his wife toward the green limousine...
...hysterical, without any of the wit of last year's Tommy or the full-tilt craziness of The Devils (1971). There are stunning flashes of beauty (Mahler, as a boy, seeing a white horse in a midnight forest) and true terror (the composer dreaming himself locked in a coffin en route to his own cremation). Such scenes are signs of genuine talent. The pity is that Russell so easily disconnects from his talent and works instead out of some dim spirit of orgiastic foolishness...
Allison said he agreed with Glazer that "affirmative action is dead and we don't have enough nails to put in the coffin." He said hiring minorities has stopped being the moral issue of hiring "poor blacks from the ghetto...
...STOP!" SHRIEKS ADELAIDE Bobo, "You're too pale." Running to a shoeshine box which rests at the foot of a coffin, she grabs a disc of shoepolish and proceeds to darken the black actor's face. He stands patiently while the smirking Miss Bobo spits and polishes him to the proper hue. As ringmaster Archibald exhorts...
Confusion replaces illusion as we discover that there is in fact no white corpse in the flower-bedecked coffin. The actors deliberately offend the court, speaking of urine and filth and foul carrion odors. The Governor soon sputters "we've come to attend our own funeral rites." Throughout all this, something ominously unknown is transpiring offstage: Newport News enters and exists, relaying puzzling messages to the court and cast...