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...husband, "That isn't very nice." The problem with this kind of humor isn't so much that it isn't nice, but that it isn't worth the extended treatment Groove Tube lavishes on it. A joke that is very funny in a ten-second quickie sequence can fade after twenty seconds, and be simply annoying after two minutes of development...
THEN LAST SPRING. The damned thing just wouldn't fade away, so we made the ultimate sacrifice after Cambodia, and gave up our C's and A's for mere passes and credits. The faculty, also going the ultimate-sacrifice route, let us. Although very few of us did anything much to fight against the war, we at least managed to think about it a whole lot for a few days. We took some small pride in our shame...
...must every film that champions the Indian's cause end in his massacre? It's as if one could simply escape it all by admitting yes, we killed them, damn shame, unforgivable, but we're sorry nonetheless. Fade out. End of problem. And yet a few Indians do still exist in America, and even now they are making unheeded demands on this society. Why not concern ourselves with their reality? Why not a documentary on the appalling conditions found on government reservations? Or better yet, a film about the growing numbers of young Indian militants, like those that have taken...
...worked quickly because France is a prosperous country with considerable powers of recovery. Giscard d'Estaing told TIME'S Roland Flamini last week: "France goes through events, through wars, through student riots, and these events can be very dangerous and disruptive. But as soon as the clouds fade away, we go back to normalcy...
Most American film critics, it seems, find it difficult to empathize with American filmmakers. Perhaps the great sense of shame critics express when American talent begins to fade comes from the fact that artists, in a romantic critical view, are not supposed to act like "normal people"; thus, when Huston cashes in on his name, he is accused of "selling out" to commercial enterprise. It is something we tolerate-nay, inculcate in our society, even while recognizing its basic immorality. A figure who enjoys making films and making money equally well is an easy target for guilt-ridden liberals...