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...hedge against some cataclysmic disaster such as a devastating war or total economic collapse. The world's champion hoarders are the French, who have learned through bitter experience-two centuries of ruinous wars, revolutions and often drastic currency devaluations-that a few kilos of gold buried in a flower garden are sometimes the only insurance against personal financial disaster. Almost half of the entire 8,900 tons of gold held privately in Europe is in France. Today's French goldbug, says Paris Financial Editor René Sedillot, "is apt to be a peasant or a workingman...
...addition to the usual fainting, helpless white flower of the South, no one who was at the movie could have missed the domineering, castrating, Big Black Mama who floors black men with a single blow, and takes two soldiers out of action simply by throwing herself to the ground on top of them...
Exploitation is at the core of this show. The idea was to cash in on the popularity of the Beatles. Their songs are probably as original and innocently evocative of the flower-child world of the '60s as they ever were, but here they are trampled under the dreck of Tom O'Horgan's grimagination. Just to offer one example, his notion of enhancing a song like When I'm Sixty-Four is to have two doddering floor-to-ceiling puppets paw lewdly at each other. As for plot, he tells a fragmentary tale...
PALM SUNDAY. Like so many undergraduates before homecoming, parisinoners have put together floats and costumes for a parade around the church parking lot and right into the sanctuary. At the tail end comes a flower-festooned forklift truck; Father Quinlan, standing atop the truck's raised platform and waving a green branch, symbolizes Christ entering the Holy City...
...constituents organized a two-week boycott of schools, justifying their opposition to busing on grounds of racism and fear for their children's safety. Explained Thomas O'Connell, father of seven: "The question is: Am I going to send my young daughter, who is budding into the flower of womanhood, into Roxbury...