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There are brilliant moments in the film, moments in which Rafelson has crystallized what-it's-like-now and why-everything-is-so-depressing. Helena Kallianiotes as a dykey hitchhiker who is obsessed with ecology ("All this crap!") and mankind ("Man-man is such a shit! ") is a brilliant parody of an elusive type, the ardent but empty-headed advocate of well-intentioned but flaccid causes. (That she is portrayed as a Lesbian-in fact, that the more insipid characters of the film are women-betrays a nasty truth about the movie.) The bowling, beer, and sex scenes are authentic...
...able to get a bowl of stew and a beer for 70?," he reports. "The discount radio stores have moved uptown, and Trinity Church now hosts a rock group at midday instead of a choir." Even so, adds Tompkins, "covering Wall Street is like watching a floating crap game. The scene drifts, the players change, but the game goes...
...chooses to call it: "You don't dig living in houses fit for pigs, you don't dig having to work for $20 a week so the white people and the corrupt black rulers can get rich. How long are you going to take this crap? The white man is your enemy, and don't you forget it. Tourism is whorism. I say live black. Black and proud...
...WHOLE concept of organizing people on an altruistic basis... is a lot of crap," according to a respected (or the respected) community organizer, Saul Alinsky. Alinsky raises questions fundamental to a discussion of the governmental CAP. A sense of personal dignity must precede a feeling of freedom; and a sense of dignity only results from self-determination. If people do not have a role in the decision-making process of institutions directly affecting their lives, such as new community organizations, the goals of CAP drift into the realm of the illusory. The clement of power rests at the heart...
...level for commercial paper. The rise should encourage treasurers of cash-rich companies to invest in bank certificates of deposit rather than lOUs. That sort of simmering down of the commercial-paper market could only be beneficial, for corporate borrowing practices should hardly be reminiscent of a permanent floating crap game...