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...first meeting of the National Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit just two years ago this week, a solemn, angry black man rose to read a "Black Manifesto." He demanded, among other things, $500 million in "reparations" from white U.S. churches and synagogues. What he wanted, said James Forman bluntly, was to be paid for past injustices. He calculated the bill at "$15 per nigger," and he urged black people "to commence the disruption of white racist churches and synagogues." Eight days later, Forman and some of his followers invaded Riverside Church, Manhattan's temple of liberal Protestantism...
Diamond Lil and Moby Dick. Distillers are already clashing over the market for lights. Brown-Forman got Government approval to bring out a new light drink this year-a clear-as-vodka, 80-proof potion called "white whisky." The drink, named Frost 8/80, is distilled at more than 160 proof, then filtered through hardwood, softwood and nutshell charcoal to make it colorless. Schenley, National Distillers and American Distilling have brought suit -so far unsuccessfully-to halt the marketing of Frost 8/80. They accuse Brown-Forman of jumping the gun on their spirits of '72 and of causing confusion that...
...Brown-Forman introduced Frost 8/ 80 last month in 15 major markets. The whisky is promoted as "a bar in a bottle" and buyers are urged to try their favorite mixed drinks under a heady assortment of new names. Thus, using a base of Frost 8/80, a Bloody Mary becomes a Diamond Lil; a Manhattan, a Great White Hope; a Daiquiri, an Igloo; a Martini, a Moby Dick; and a Screwdriver, a Monkey Wrench. The new whisky, it seems, is versatile enough to masquerade as gin, vodka or even...
Unsure of himself and perhaps of America. Forman has resorted to caricatures instead of characterizations, and drawn not on ingenuity but on bile. Even the device of the audition, which Forman has employed in two previous films, reinforces the general feeling of nastiness. He shoots the scene "live" -as far as most of the participants know, it is a real audition-and the fumblings and failings become the source of some crude, easy laughs. In partial compensation there are a couple of very funny performances by Vincent Schiavelli, playing a freak who tutors the S.P.F.C. in the art of blowing...
They help, but not enough to overcome Forman's simplistic misanthropy...