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...Glib and Easy...
Over the past ten years, Tom Wolfe has set himself up as the Bugs Bunny of American journalism-a squeaky, impudent dandy with a glib eye for the lumbering victim. Toward the end of the '60s, New York appeared to be strewn with his targets, from rich Black Panther-loving liberals to the editorial staff of The New Yorker. It was also dotted with the lucky recipients of his approval: mayflies like Baby Jane Holzer, cultish ephemerids like Marshall McLuhan and social grotesques like the collector-exhibitionists Robert and Ethel Scull, all festooned in yards of Wolfe...
...powerless or cruel. Corrie's reply is that "the same God that you are accusing came and lived in the midst of our world. He was beaten, he was mocked, and he died on the cross, and he did it for love, for us." But hers is no glib story of faith. Later she prays privately: "Jesus, there are many things I do not understand. Do not let me go mad." Graham has often been criticized for emphasizing personal conversion and avoiding the difficult problems in the Christian life. Few will carp at shallowness in The Hiding Place...
Bitter Charges. Puttnam urged Ophuls to be more aggressive in his approach, or, as he put it, "more fascist." Ever since, there have been bitter charges and recriminations. Ophuls believes that the producers wanted a bit of glib radical chic, like the current Hearts and Minds. The backers charge that Ophuls wanted the film to be six hours long (his contract dictated a maximum length of 4½ hours) and became intractable when this possibility was denied."Bunk," says the director, who proposed an "ideal" length of six hours but cut the film down to 4 hours 38 minutes...
...turn it off immediately, before it records the vacuity. It is a powerful statement by Antonioni, as his camera slaps down other film makers who have looked at the motion picture image as substitution for an exposition of the truth, synthesizing it with their small, willful, glib ways of portraying the world. Fittingly, Antonioni would have us see him in that witch doctor's role...