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Most of the textbooks used in the school are cast-offs from other (white) schools systems and are copyrighted in the 1940's or 1950's. They are usually chauvinistic and racist, as well as insipid. The principals of the black schools are masters at exploiting the black people. Children have to pay for their own pencils and paper. And frequently there are school functions, sometimes during school time-like dances or a May Day festival-for which all those who attend must pay. To some extent the principals are forced to do this, because the county school board gives...

Author: By Darrell Prescott, | Title: Benign Neglect in Wilcox County, Alabama | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...hitchhiker who is obsessed with ecology ("All this crap!") and mankind ("Man-man is such a shit! ") is a brilliant parody of an elusive type, the ardent but empty-headed advocate of well-intentioned but flaccid causes. (That she is portrayed as a Lesbian-in fact, that the more insipid characters of the film are women-betrays a nasty truth about the movie.) The bowling, beer, and sex scenes are authentic, the lampoon of a delightfully masturbatory intellectual cocktail party is great, and occasional small details (a baby crying in a diner, a formal meal set in a kitchen...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The New York Film Festival Twelve Nights in a Dark Room: You Can't Always Get What You Want | 9/29/1970 | See Source »

...Kottmeyer, you made an insipid subject very jovial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Jovial Insipid Subject | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...thrived for years on the fact that it stayed open longer than almost anyplace else. A very bad book called Love with a Harvard Accent once said that the Bick was "where the Cambridge bohemians gathered." You need pay this no attention, however, because the same book had its insipid hero stopping into Leavitt and Peirce for a cup of coffee, which is categorically impossible because Leavitt and Peirce only sells tobacco and games. But the Bick is open late...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...sons. There are heavy-breathing suggestions that the family that preys together plays together. Mama rewards her sons after a hard day of busting heads or robbing banks by letting one of them bunk with her for the night. The fact that everyone gets his just deserts in an insipid shoot-'em-up in the final reel will come as no surprise. Producer-Director Roger Gorman has made some tricky, sinister horror movies in his time (The Tomb of Ligeia, The Masque of the Red Death), but the hysterical vulgarity of Bloody Mama suggests that he is more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bock to the Crypt | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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