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...nation energetically repressed the whole experience of Viet Nam for much of the '70s. All the logic of the Me Generation was actually headlong flight from the lethal surprises found in obscure Cochin China. Journalist Gloria Emerson, who wrote with brilliant indignation about the war, pronounced bitterly a few years ago: "We are a people who drop the past, and then forget where it has been put." But the war in Viet Nam cannot be discarded with impetuous American blitheness. The civic and psychic mechanics don't work that way. The men (and as many as 7,500 women...
...drawn at random. The "Short Takes" section is unceasingly left-political--Rennie Davis converts to eastern religion, FBI informant unmasked, grape strike update, "Vietnam-American Friendship Week starts Monday," "Supporters of striking Shell Oil workers are demonstrating Monday." Names mentioned include Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ngo Vinh Long, Gloria Emerson, Frances Fitzgerald, Ann Froines, Michael Ansara. The lead article was on a company that sold a how-to suicide package. The second story was by a reporter who was getting obscene phone calls. She talked to her harasser and changed his life. Lots of notes on gay politics, an update...
...times, he stumbles through a fog bank of displaced memories. The people around him, his daughter Mathilda (Sheila Ballantine), his wealthy son-in-law Benson (Gerald Flood), who grudgingly houses him, his watchdog companion Bristol (Edward Judd), whom Kitchen believes to be a So viet spy, and his granddaughter Gloria (Marty Cruickshank) are not full-fleshed characters but more like ghostly presences. Storey utilizes them like light switches to illuminate the rooms of Kitchen's past...
Perhaps the novel is not right for Vietnam. Gloria Emerson certainly comes as close as anyone to creating the definitive Vietnam work with her passionate profiles of individuals in Winners and Losers. Maybe the right medium is film; but Apocalypse Now veered away from Vietnam too soon to stake a claim, and The Deer Hunter, in its attempt to explain why all wars exist, failed altogether. Or perhaps it's television--a televised benediction for the televised war. But television in America wouldn't ever be willing to risk the necessary time and talent for such a project...
Other figures committee members said it was considering two weeks ago included Vernon Jordan, former Rep. Robert Drinan, Richard Pryor, Andrew Young, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Garry Trudeau, and Gloria Steinem...