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...Charles Chaplin, the perverted subject of Great Britain who has become notorious for his forcible seduction of white girls." Rankin was correct in one respect, and it was the one that irritated more enlightened legislators: Chaplin had resided in America for more than three decades, but he had never forsaken his British citizenship. Inevitably Chaplin was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was his chance to play David with the Philistines. Instead, he sent a brief wire: i AM NOT A COMMUNIST; NEITHER HAVE I EVER JOINED ANY POLITICAL
When the last Master shoots himself, Jodorowsky freaks out, and runs around pulling at his hair and yelling at God for having forsaken him. Meanwhile, Mara has taken up with a stereotypical lesbian, who dresses in black, wears black mascara and a black Sassoon haircut. The lesbian shoots him six times, but he keeps walking, arms outstretched and with stigmata bleeding at the hands and feet, until Mara shoots him and he crumbles to the ground and is hauled away by a group of dwarfs and cripples...
...lifts up his countenance to this united and lonely pleading of men in their shrouds, men beyond the grave, of a community of souls-God who loves man both before and after he has sinned, God whom man, in his need, may challenge, asking why he has forsaken him . . . And so man to whom the divine countenance is lifted bursts out into the exultant profession: The Lord is God': this God of Love, he alone is God! . . . Everything earthly lies so far behind the transport of eternity in this confession that it is difficult to imagine that...
...writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe, etc., who now has apparently forsaken fake Fellini for pseudo Salinger. Give him one thing, though, he's the equal of Erich Segal - in art, if not in commerce...
This year's JV team has more games and more players than ever before. Consequently, many players have forsaken the rigorous JV schedule for more lax intramural competition...