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Nona Hendrix, bathed in eerie green light, portrays the "System" while Patti and Sara sing to her: "System--Leave Me Alone." Nona does not represent the "system" of the 60's--the "fascist war-mongering machine," the "military industrial complex" which will bring riot police out to face protesters; she is the "System" which we in the 70's have to cope with: a system which uses seductive promises of monetary security and personal advancement to entice us into joining it. Was this song (written by Hendrix) something one could hear in a German cabaret during the Weimar Republic...
...AMARCORD. They say that I have made a political movie. Actually, Amarcord conveys mostly the emotive, psychological part of being fascist-fascism as mental sluggishness, as a loss of imagination. But the movie is also nostalgic...
...cheap suitcases with their belongings. Many sported T shuts with pictures of Amilcar Cabral, the assassinated Guinea liberation leader against whose cause they had so recently been fighting. Some, but by no means all, were enthusiastic about returning home. Says Joaquim Pinedo Martins, 22: "The war was a fascist disaster, but I don't plan to emigrate. I will find my future in Portugal...
Nonetheless, Lindbergh never recanted his isolationist position. While he was never an anti-Semite or a fascist, as some charged at the time, he remained appallingly insensitive to the true evils of the Hitler regime. "His self-confidence thickened into arrogance," said English Writer Harold Nicolson, an old friend. "His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy until it had become as hard, as metallic and as narrow as a chisel...
...Sasakawa established the fascist Nationalist Masses Party and was elected to the lower house of the Diet during World War II, a political fling that landed him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison for three years while U.S. officials tried unsuccessfully to prosecute him as a war criminal. Protesting his innocence, Sasakawa hired a big brass band to blast martial songs as he strode proudly into the clink. Behind bars, he became fast friends with Kishi and other imprisoned Japanese officials who later returned to power. He also got the idea of how to increase his fortune when an American...