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...THOUGH we didn't see the emptiness and boredom beneath their smiles before, Cassavetes begins to make everything explicit. Celebration of the sensual turns into contempt. When we should feel pity, we feel disgust. At one point in an English gaming room, Archie finds himself with a repulsively ugly English society woman who won't let him walk away. The scene is utterly gratuitous, and Cassavetes is using the perversely banal to make cheap jokes. To present the underside of bourgeois respectability, he deliberately cultivates the unattractive...
...saying, he answers, "It's not real to you, but it's real to me." And it is precisely this that explains Cassavetes' attitude toward his audience. He is so determined to uphold some private conception of the honest artist that he treats his audience with a contempt that becomes itself artificial...
Couming, who is defending himself, added that he didn't feel the contempt of court charge he would probably face when he was finally apprehended would make any difference in his trial. "As far as I'm concerned, I honestly don't feel that this government that burns babies has any right to try me for anything," he said...
...facts? How about these: It is worse than we can imagine. Hundreds of thousands are dead; we've dropped many more bombs to implement our policy of 'forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam than we used on the Nazis. Noam Chomsky (one of the few for whom I feel no contempt) writes, "By March 1969 the total level of bombardment had reached 130,000 tons a month-nearly two Hiroshimas a week in South Vietnam and Laos, defenseless countries." "Go easy on words like genocide," Henry Kissinger told students who visited him in the White House. "It is not the policy...
Kunstler, who was chief defense counsel in the Chicago 8 and Catonsville 9 conspiracy trials-and faces a four-year sentence for a contempt of court conviction stemming from the Chicago trial-spoke to 700 persons in Lowell Lecture Hall Saturday...