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When (as they did a couple of times during the B.U. concert) the guitarists step back to their amplifiers for a drink of Budweiser and let their chords fade out, Kreutzmann and Hart take over and demonstrate one reason why one band has two drummers. They turn on their stools to face each other, their eyes lock naturally, and they shift into perfect synchronization; their arms rise and fall in high elastic curves, each man playing his motions off the motions of the other a tiny part of a second before the sound plays off the sound; the drum duet...
LIKE MOST revolutionary forms, Movement is constantly redefining itself, constantly telling us and itself what it is trying to do. And like the movement itself, the book is composed of several loosely-formed, overlapping structures which, as Kathy Mulherin, one of the collaborators, tells us, alternately fade in and out like different facets of an emerging personality...
...sexist conspiracy, Washington's American Film Institute has gone to the trouble of collecting some glaring examples. Among them: Choreographer Busby Berkeley's Dames, with its kaleidoscopic chorines demonstrating "the woman as object"; Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, playing a liberated female journalist, only to fade out in the kitchen when Spencer Tracy calls her "unfeminine" because she can't cook; Bette Davis' surrender to Henry Fonda in Jezebel which, according to the program notes, is "an object of contempt to feminists rivaled only by Marlene Dietrich's trudge into the desert...
...best of campaigns, it was probably not the worst, either. For all the obfuscations and invective, despite widely reported apathy, the voters were conscious of having the last word. On the morning after, the U.S. could only hope that soon the smears would fade, the hot words cool, the politics of accommodation resume. Besides, as the following notes illustrate, in the midst of the battle there were odd and funny testaments to the enduring vitality of the American process...
...former member of Brazil's congress, Marighella had no quarrel with Guevara's goal of overthrowing the established order-just with his tactics. Marighella believed that the proper approach was to terrorize Latin America's crowded and vulnerable urban areas. It is easier, he reasoned, to fade into a teeming city than to elude an army patrol in a rural district where the peasants distrust all strangers. Marighella put his ideas into a 55-page work of revolution, Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla...