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Illegal broadcasting by homemade transmitters has become a persistent and growing youth cult in the Soviet Union. After samizdat (clandestine publishing of dissident writings) and magnitizdat (circulating tapes of unorthodox poetry and music), there is now radioiz-dat-air-it-yourself programs of pop music, teen-age talk, messages to girl friends and even dirty jokes. All of which represents a somewhat refreshing contrast to official state-controlled broadcasting, which is apt to be long on lectures about beet growing and the life of Lenin, but short on entertainment...
Gone With The Wind. Unlike Birth of A Nation, Gone With The Wind had the advantage of sound to make its point about blacks: "QUITTIN' TIME!" "Who dat say 'Quittin time'? I'se de boss; I tells yawl when's quittin' time--QUITTIN' TIME...
...like men," even though "they could not grasp their collective strength as a people and and act like political men." It allowed for people like the old slave who answered a young white minister's "Primarily, we must postulate the existence of a deity," with a gentle, "Yes, Lord, dat's so. Bless de Lord." It allowed slaves to be compassionate even after a presumably all-consuming liberation, like the one who told of a visit to his old master...
...went to see him in his last days and I set by him and kept de files off while dere. I see the lines sorrow had plowed on dat old face, and I' membered he'd been a captain on hoss back indat war. It come into my 'membrance de song of Moses; de Lord had triumphed glorily and de hoss and his rider have been throwed into...
This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape...