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The roadside execution provoked a predictable spree of Moslem revenge. Before long, the road between Tripoli and Zgharta had become a battleground. The private militias of opposing political factions hammered one another with automatic weapons, dynamite, plastique, .50-cal. machine guns and 120-mm. mortars. Newsmen who managed to reach...
As so often happens when hassles like this break out, people get so busy taking a position that they lose sight of the fact that the object of their contention is not worth the hot air they expend on it. In the case of Coonskin, a slovenly ineptitude of design...
This theory has two facets: first, that Harvard is conservative in its internal policies, even racist and sexist, and second, that Harvard is conservative by nature because it is an entrenched institution in a conservative nation. From the days of John reed and W.E.B. DuBois '90, who said he was...
There is currently some noise around to the effect that Cooley High-about growing up black in Chicago in 1964-is a separate but equal American Graffiti. Such impressions should be corrected immediately. It requires a certain defensiveness, or an anxious if inadvertent condescension, to maintain that Cooley High, crude...
WHAT THE CZAR'S panorama does offer Allen is the chance to outgrow silliness and really explore absurdity. As the title suggests. Love and Death is Allen's stab at intellectual pretension. He teases love and death, duels and Dostoevsky, wars and warmongers. The movie opens with Boris in prison...