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...film's sexual interludes go-and they manage simultaneously to go too far and not far enough-those, too, are beneath contempt to Newley. "I suppose I'm really antifeminist," he admits. "If a man really loved women, he'd treat them with more respect." But then, how can you offer respect when you don't have much, even for yourself? "Perhaps once you stop being hungry, you don't produce such good stuff," says Newley the film critic. "I'm beginning to lose it. My work-all of it -is a hobby...
...center of the river, accusing them of being pro-Soviet traitors, and then beheading them. Another favorite habit was forming up on the river ice, sticking out tongues in unison at the Soviet troopers, and then turning and dropping trousers to the Russians in an ancient gesture of contempt. That tactic stopped when Soviet troops took refuge behind large portraits of Chairman...
Formed Image. Newsmen increasingly face the dilemma encountered by New York Times Reporter Judy Klemesrud. Interviewing the wife of Black Panther Fugitive Eldridge Cleaver, she was confronted not only by a stream of obscenity directed at white society, but also by Mrs. Cleaver's outspoken contempt for a paper that would not print her language. Judy tried to include one of Mrs. Cleaver's words in the story, but the word was deleted-and so was the story itself after the first edition...
What Williamson possesses in tem perament and character is size (there is no pettiness in him), the arrogance if not the elegance of a prince, irascibility (Hamlet's fed-upness with a corrupt court and its fawning fools and knaves), and above all ardor, not unmixed with seething contempt. This is a Hamlet who scoffs and snarls and wields the so liloquies like a switchblade...
...meant the "blacklist." Without a chance to clear his name, a witness would suddenly find himself without friends and without a job. But it is not easy to see how in 1969 a HUAC blacklist could terrorize an SDS activist. Witnesses like Jerry Rubin have openly boasted of their contempt for American institutions. A subpoena from HUAC would be unlikely to scandalize Abie Hoffman or his friends...