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...cultural journalism-to say nothing of his public feuding. There was that scrap with Robert Kennedy, the nasty split with stepsister Jacqueline Onassis. Then Vidal endured an expensive lawsuit by William F. Buckley Jr. that stemmed from a joint TV appearance in which Vidal called the conservative columnist a "crypto-Nazi...
However, it is far from clear that Orwell would not have enlisted in the cultural cold war, at least at the outset. The evidence is maddeningly contradictory. Orwell engaged in a little red-baiting feud with Konni Zilliacus, a Labour MP, whom he called a "crypto-Communist," a follower of the Soviet line who was, therefore, an enemy of democracy; at the same time, he refused to support a protest against Soviet actions in Eastern Europe because it did not also protest British actions in Greece. In an attack on Zilliacus, he wrote, "the only big political questions...
...local objection has been raised against the "politics" of the film, as revealed by the portrait of the workers. An accusing cry of crypto-fascism, to be exact. Peckinpah, of course, probably couldn't care less about what passes for political discussion in Cambridge. (It is unfortunate that few good grumbles about "chicken-shit radicals and jack-ass judges" were clipped by ABC Pictures). He knows, as few political acceptables do, that when you hit rock-bottom in certain societies the only thing that cheers you up is someone else's funeral...
...Guarantors. Bigger defense budgets would certainly put a strain on Spain's economy, which is in a lingering recession. But the main cost of last week's crypto-coup will be political. The military won an informal but all-important endorsement from parliament as the chief guarantor of the regime's "continuity" when Franco, now 78 and ill, dies and Spain reverts to a monarchy under the youthful and unseasoned king-to-be, Prince Juan Carlos...
...into the big, clean American sound of WUSA, the sound of a decent generation." The disk jockey is a drunken, apolitical animal named Rheinhardt (Paul Newman), whose job is to plug crypto-fascism for good ole WUSA, a right-wing New Orleans radio station. By night he delivers his spiel under the heel of the station's jackboot-minded owner (Pat Hingle). By day he wallows in booze and self-pity ("I had it made and I woke up one morning, I looked down and fell off my life") in the arms of his pathetic paramour, a hooker named...