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...electrical bananas" or "mellow yellow."* Banana-heads scrape the white fibers from the inside of the peels, boil the scrapings into a paste, which is then baked. The dark brown ash that results is smoked in hand-rolled cigarette "joints" or in pipes, tastes vaguely like a burning compost heap...
...without Words I and Illuminations are curious productions. The first an accelerated and expurgated history of humankind. Paul Schmidt is The Man and for perhaps fifteen vaguely humorous minutes he clutches at the summum bonum. Then he declines, as do we all to a blasted heap of insensibility. It is worth the fifteen minutes, I think, just to see Paul Schmidt portray a blasted heap...
Night Games. Mai Zetterling is a Swedish cinemactress who in middle age has ventured to look through the other end of the lens. In Loving Couples she saw Sweden as the land of the midnight fun. In Night Games she sees it as a heap of moral garbage. The film as a result made a certain stink at this year's film festivals. At Venice it was banned from public showing, at San Francisco it was berated as "pornography for profit." The statement was made by Shirley Temple, a critic with rather frivolous credentials, but it is essentially correct...
Gambit. A perfect crime is like a soup-can skyscraper in a supermarket. Its smug symmetry, the hubris of it all, inspires the naughty little boy in everybody with a devilish desire to give the arrogant thing a nudge and bring it down in a thundering great heap. In Gambit, the naughty little boy in everybody should have the time of his life...
Died. Edward J. Meeman, 77, editor from 1931 to 1962 of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, who championed the TVA against private power owners and spent 20 years fighting Memphis Political Boss Edward H. Crump ("May his machine be cast into the junk heap"), finally won the engagement in 1948 when the Press-Scimitar's backing, against Crump's bitter opposition, helped put Estes Kefauver in the Senate; of a heart attack; near Memphis...