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Chartreuse Suits. An aggressive and often affronting movie, Sweetback is also irreverent, scatological and crude. "It's for those dudes in the chartreuse suits," explains Van Peebles. "Those cats who want to be card-carrying whites -man, they...
Chinese hotels are not air conditioned, despite sweltering summers, and the Americans found that room service was undependable. The crude domestic soap and toilet paper was best avoided. Room telephones in the Tung Fang, Roderick discovered, could be made to work once the dialing code was divined (dial 666 for the front desk)-but he had to go downstairs to learn the instructions...
This conventional theme might serve for a Tennessee Williams playlet. It might even be turned into a decent ballet, but not as Cranko has tarted it up. Poème inconsistently wobbles between crude parody-guests at the party flounce offstage in a way that was clearly meant to be amusing-and lush sentimentalism. The four lithe male dancers who play the diva's lovers are coyly dressed in skintight body stockings and continually swirl enormous Art Nouveau capes about themselves like pretend matadors at a gay beach...
...Faced with that kind of crude, belittling response, it is no wonder that women are often provoked to sharp recriminations, and sometimes to stretching a point beyond reason. For example, along with setting themselves the admirable goal of organizing politically, a few speakers at the Women's Caucus also made some farfetched assertions. "We must humanize America and save her," said Betty Smith, implying that it is up to women to do the job. Author Steinem railed at the "masculine mystique belief" in the inevitability of violence. If recriminations are in order, one could with some justice blame women...
Vladimir Nabokov called it "posh-lost," a Russian term he translates as "crude pseudo literature." Thomas Mann called it Death in Venice, perhaps the most celebrated novella of the 20th century...