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...sand. Bond also resurrects the often-forgotten point that school busing is "an old practice in virtually each of the fifty states." On ecology: "Picking up beer cans from the highway is touted as proper social activism by the Nixon Administration, while the corporate murderers who continue to manufacture filth to poison our air and water go free...
...oceans that cover two-thirds of the earth's surface are its biggest dump. The theory has always been that the seas could absorb any amount of filth and sewage, but leading scientists have repeatedly warned that the waters' capacity to purify lethal industrial wastes is limited and that poisons entering the marine food cycle become concentrated in fish...
...catch it in the saloon, which, like every other set in the picture, has been designed and dressed to look determinedly shabby. The actors wear worn clothes coated with dirt, as if they had all been wrestling in an anthracite pit. Their faces are ever so carefully caked with filth. Reality is swallowed up in such elaborately misplaced attention to detail; the movie looks quite as fussy and phony in its ramshackle posturings as Shane did in its opulent mythologizing...
...will not tolerate the continued warping of our children's minds with the filth, violence, and cultural lies that are all-pervasive in current productions of so-called black movies," explained Junius Griffin former president of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP and a founder of the new coalition. "The transformation from the stereotyped Stepin Fetchit to Super Nigger on the screen is just another form of cultural genocide...
...complaints about pornography may well come from those who are uneasy about sexual differences. Anticipating such uneasiness (or perhaps betraying their own), some editors censored the picture, erasing the male genitals and the female nipples. Others printed the original drawing-and were blasted for purveying "filth." No one seemed satisfied; some faulted the unretouched drawing because it does not show the female genitalia. "We did think about showing the woman giving birth," Drake told a Wall Street Journal reporter last week, "but that would really have complicated things...