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...midi goes to great lengths to look like a loser. Unflattering (except over legs that never quit and hips that never start) and impractical (except to cover up a bad case of knees), the latest dress length seems as anachronistic as the New Look and more of a drag than the bustle...
...ever get to see around here is legs." Women's Wear Daily, the fashion trade's newspaper that is pushing the Longuette,* jokingly called the new look "the damned length"-a reference to Luchino Visconti's successful movie The Damned, which displays not only Brownshirts in drag but women in 1930s skirts. The influential daily has, as a result of its campaign, become a prime target of the miniforces. "Women's Wear influences Seventh Avenue because it comes out every day," complains one disgruntled manufacturer. "It's like brainwashing: you read anything on a daily...
...girl tells us first off, lighting a joint, that she avoids "reality trips-man, they're a drag," She supports herself as a secretary who clearly neither types nor takes shorthand. She perceives no unity between one day and the next, no pattern correcting her life, until she hears of the fate her lover meets an hour after their separation...
...this proceeds pretty much as expected, but begins to drag when the gags rarely rise above overplayed puns (Wife: "I haven't finished putting on my face." Husband: "Did your chisel break?") Predictable references to topical material (Dane refusing to fight the Grendels: "My lottery number is 360") are no relief. Fortunately director Fred Carmichael has done an admirable job in milking every bit of humor out of a sparse text and occasionally sparse talent. Christopher Tunnard is a particular disappointment, short of comic timing and vocal talent. Jack Olive, on the other hand, has the vigorous, obscene Hotrocs well...
...working class smacks ungently of socialism, which is not at all what the McCoverns, McCarthys, and Goodells have in mind. When the Independent Radical Caucus asked that a student hand be outstretched to the only disaffected sector with the power to demand anything, SMC criticized them for trying to drag sectarian politics into the coalition...