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...modern Australia still include the prospector and the cattleman, but they also include the mine worker, the land developer, the labor leader and the successful young mod designer. Actually, the average Australian is not now-and never was-the remote man of the outback, "the son of field and flock ...from bold and roving stock," as Poet "Banjo" Patterson described the pioneer. He is a suburbanite, and his country is one of the most urbanized nations on earth. Australians like to tell a newcomer that if he will go first to the top of Sydney's tallest building...
...They are full of nouveaux riches because the country is newly rich. The size of the average car has doubled in ten years; powerboats on trailers choke carports. There are sculptured gnomes on lawns, and almost every front door has a "feature" such as a horseshoe knocker or a flock of stained-glass ducks in flight...
Because of Castro's gangster connections, the middle-class democrats of Havana (lawyers, doctors and merchants) consistently underrated him, believing that nobody would flock to such a banner. When their own children did just that, they at least half believed Castro's protestations in his mountain redoubt that he was just another liberal like themselves. Castro cleverly avoided tests of arms with Batista, correctly perceiving, as Thomas puts it, that he was conducting not primarily guerrilla warfare but rather "a political campaign in a tyranny, with the campaigner being defended by armed...
...forensic imagery revolved around the vision of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, bankers and welfare mothers forming an ecstatic muster and marching like faceless Johnnies to a nonviolent holy war for justice, dignity and the dream. In this vision, which was the underpinning of his famous "A Preacher Leading His Flock" speech given exactly two months before his death. King saw himself as a "drum major for justice." walking the point alone...
...almost perfectly controlled film, is the last sequence, the death of Balthazar. While being used to smuggle goods out of the town, he is deserted and accidentally shot. Slowly bleeding to death, he walks to the middle of a field, lays down and silently dies among a flock of bleating sheep. The immediate impression is of the nobility of the death. But Bresson holds his shot on the heaped mass of dead flesh. And all the humanizing emotions one is tempted to attribute to Balthazar, all the pity one wants to feel for him. all his symbolic reference-one realizes...