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...illustrate what he meant, Professor Earl Cheit leaned down, swabbed his index finger across the floor under his chair and then held up the evidence. His finger was black. The floor was filthy because it had not been swept; it had not been swept because maintenance funds were inadequate; the maintenance funds were inadequate because the huge and prestigious University of California (nine campuses, $1 billion annual budget) has for the past four years been involved in what Berkeley Economist Cheit calls a "cost-income squeeze" that is prototypical of problems facing other large U.S. educational institutions...
...KIND OF life into which Malcolm was born is depicted by film-library footage of Southern plantations and Ku Klux Klan meetings while the narrator, James Earl Jones, repeats the first paragraph from Malcolm's autobiography...
...eating it as she watches the passersby from her porch, quietly slipping out by the back way after she has dressed up to go out and enjoy life, gingerly sipping a seven-and-seven in the nightclub, she is endearing without being bathetic, absurd without being ridiculous. When Earl Tibbits prances around the school bus calling "Pussycat! Oh pussycat!" and suddenly Ruby comes bounding around the corner, enormous in a big pink dress, Earl looks like more of a fool than does Ruby, because the film has made us appreciate in her qualities which Earl...
Counterpointing the realistic presentation of Ruby's fling with Earl Tibbits is the treatment of her niece Vivian, a self-contained, gum-chewing teenager, much closer to Nabokov's Lolita than was Sue Lyon, who played the part in Kubrick's movie. With no claims to any particular beauty or charm. Vivian succeeds--where Ruby doesn't--simply because she is young, because she doesn't care, because she regards adoration...
...PHOTOGRAPHY throughout is unpretentious and lets the story proceed, except for a minor lapse when the camera jazzily sweeps over Vivian's face again and again. There are some good moments of visual humor--Ruby's feet descending a staircase, Ruby's great big bus and Earl's tiny sports car leaving the driveway of the nightclub simultaneously, and a few parodies of romantic absurdities like those in A Man and a Woman...