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Which is not to say that Millhouse isn't at times also quite compassionate. It does tend to laugh at the prune faced conventioneers and D.A.R.'s who applaud Nixon's jeremiads against dope peddlers, his paeons to private enterprise, and his assurances that the only thing "worse than atomic war would be surrender." But, by film's end, it also sees such unsympathetic figures--as well as the urban poor at the Thanksgiving Dinner and even the Nixons themselves--as victims of a culture and a government that no man would want to wish on even his worst...
Street Clinics. The new commander's biggest strides have been against drugs, to which he is applying lessons learned in Viet Nam. "The really difficult part," General Davison said recently, "was to get officers and NCOS to understand that we weren't dealing with dope fiends, but with young men who had a very real-life problem and who needed compassionate, humane concern and not punishment...
...Harvard is not bad for the conventional reasons. Nobody ever gets busted here. That's really true. You can leave bricks of dope lying on the floor, you can hang tabs of acid out the window tied together with a bright orange string. You can walk down the street singing a song you made up with the words, 'oh woweee, I sure am stoned tonight,' and you won't even get stopped...
...that Medicine Ball Caravan is almost schizoid. One part celebrates the youth culture; another is a crafty send-up of the whole caravan project. There are, of course, the requisite number of elaborate rock concert sequences (B.B. King, Alice Cooper). There are also the usual nude bathing sequences, the dope sequences and the rapping-with-Middle-America sequences...
...concentrating on a love affair between a pusher named Bobby (Al Pacino) and a girl called Helen (Kitty Winn), who has come to New York from Indiana, had a bad love affair and a painful abortion. She picks up a habit from Bobby and becomes a prostitute to raise dope money for both of them. They hole up with other junkies in the threadbare hotel rooms around...