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Given a nation with such dogmatically resplendent papers, a Chosen People, "like Israel of Old in the center of nations," the problem of America became one of theodicy: how to explain a history so often at odds with the virtuous myth? Most succinctly: What was the author of the Declaration...
Whatever it is, it is expensive. Superman has cost about $35 million, according to Salkind, or roughly four times its original budget. This strained the considerable ingenuity of Ilya's father Alexander, who finds the backers and has veto power on major decisions. The project has gone through three...
Consequently, the May 17 California telecast of police attacking a houseful of Symbionese Liberation Army members was a special occasion. It was special because the police did not take the normal security precaution of cordoning off the block on which shooting would take place. They clearly believed that so little...
When Shaw did get personal, he was apt to be insulting. He declared to Henry James: "It is really a damnable sin to draw with such consummate art a houseful of rubbish." After passing on his post as drama critic of London's Saturday Review to Max Beerbohm, he...
Sweet Saviour is concerned with the exploits of a deranged preacher named Moon (Troy Donahue) who mesmerizes his hippie followers into slaughtering a houseful of people at the home of a wealthy and pregnant actress. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is clearly and leeringly intentional.