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Totally at the root of the present dispute between the U.S. and Iran is the deposed Shah. Though Americans themselves are divided on their views toward the Shah, few perceive him as an "Iranian Hitler," as Iranian revolutionaries now call him, charging that his forces slaughtered 10,000 Iranian civilians in the months before the monarchy collapsed. Even fewer Americans would be prepared to allow the Shah to be returned to Iran involuntarily to face the Ayatullah's revolutionary justice...
...part of Hitler's drive to exterminate "inferior races," the Nazis in 1938 established a Central Office for Combatting the Gypsy Menace, which arbitrarily classified thousands of gypsies as common criminals and sent them to concentration camps. Later, gypsies became targets of the Nazi crusade for racial purity...
SCOTT COUNTY, Tennessee doesn't lay much claim to attracting attention: The Appalachian ridge area last received publicity when it declared war against Hitler before Pearl Harbor. But Scott County has yet another headline on the way. From the heart of the fundamentalist coal-mining community comes the Republican Party's highest elected official and newest presidential contender--Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr. After twelve years on the Senate sidelines, watching party colleagues like Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford carry the ball and fumble, and three vice-presidential nominations, the 54-year-old Senate minority leader now thinks...
...view of a character's ankles, or punctuate a film with shots of telephones? What is more, Fassbinder's idiosyncrasies are more skillfully performed with each film. The opening of The Marriage of Maria Braun is a particular gem: as our eyes take in an Adolf Hitler wall poster, the image explodes to reveal a full-dress wedding in the midst of a bombing attack. From this incongruous tableau, the director moves on to ever higher lunacy. Audiences never know when he will cut away from a tense dramatic exchange to a closeup of a pack of Camels...
...style expresses complex emotions and ambiguous political history in broad theatrical gestures, he never makes his case. Eventually the strain between form and content becomes irritating. The final shot is a portrait of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who is thus equated with the film's opening image of Hitler. No sale. If Fassbinder wants to take such dangerous stands, he will have to abandon his facile mannerisms and arm himself with the most powerful tools...