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...medicines and most industrial goods declined. The price tags on television sets went down 13%, on washing machines 17%, and on vacuum cleaners 15%. At the same time, however, food prices were drastically increased. Beef went up 19%, assuming that one could find it, flour 16% and salted herring 19%. The cost of ersatz coffee nearly doubled. The government also announced that wages would be frozen...
This brought charges of "paternalism" and "red herring" from the dwindling crowd, which soon demanded that the faculty members leave the room. They did, offering suggestions on revolutionary politics as they went...
...Herring in the Face
...Back in Cambridge, Roscoe said that the Proud Eagle Tribe, a women's revolutionary group which sent letters to newspapers yesterday claiming responsibility for the bombing, was a "red herring thrown in front of our face to throw us off the track. We're going on a different angle altogether." Roscoe would not comment on the different angle...
DOCUMENTARIES can also be embarrassing, and Street Scenes 1970 was the stickiest red herring at the Festival. The film is a record of what occurred in New York after last May's strike (including some footage of the celebrated hard-hat incidents), and it also covers the march on Washington. That the photography and sound are of markedly poor quality, that the editing resorts to tricks (unspeakable in documentaries) like pixillation, and that the whole affair is packaged like a landmark of cinema verite, all pale before the movie's ugliest flaw: its politics are asinine. The interviewers are boorish...