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...vicious racial stereotypes, and this anger caused its original distributor, Paramount, to relinquish it gratefully to a smaller, less visible competitor. Once this happened, of course, the film was defended by other black groups charging censorship. They claimed that although Coonskin indeed showed blacks as hookers, hoodlums and con artists, it also showed the principal characters as tough, smart and ultimately victorious over still worse oppressors-mainly, corrupt cops and vile mafiosi...
...that will be left behind is human beings-the unemployed who won't find jobs on the gentle slopes of recovery." The threat of renewed inflation is only one reason for this worry. Interest rates are rising, discouraging business borrowing. Last week New Jersey Bell Telephone and Con Edison put off bond offerings totaling $155 million and Manhattan's First National City Bank raised its prime rate on business loans a quarter point, to 7¾%. Also, the stimulus of the $18 billion of 1975 tax cuts and rebates will be largely exhausted by next year...
Gregory spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 people in Science Center Con behalf of the Labor Organizers' Defense Fund (LODF) about the immediate necessity to gather information about CIA deception and "to put them away before they put you away...
...instance, the subject of consciousness-raisin. No doubt it is possible to write an "objective" examination of such a topic--interview various people, authorities, social critics, etc., pro and con--but it probably wouldn't be nearly as interesting or nearly as revealing. What Ephron found her group degenerating into was "a running soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week"--Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show; Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual...
Nicholson has a genius for creating pungently unlikable characters, but not cartoons. He is best playing the kind of handsome, slightly cheap con-man whose tentativeness at the wrong time shows that he's secretly more than a pushover--a brazenly healthy specimen with a weak-willed, soft-hearted core, a man whose oblique playfulness (meant to hide everything) pleads desperately for help and affection but who is vacillating, mean and a bit of an ass. Here he plays a sly, greasy Dennis-the-Menace type with the manipulative whine and offended pout of a three year old. He waddles...