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...BLACK, a woman, two Jews, and a cripple. This time, Interior Secretary James G. Watt hit the jackpot. This tasteless description of the composition of a newly appointed coal-lease commission brought Watt closer to being ousted from the White House than ever before...
...Interior Secretary, notorious for his outspoken arch-conservatism ("I don't use the words 'Democrats' and 'Republicans.' It's liberals and Americans.") has succeeded, with a few words, in foiling the President's recent efforts to improve the Administration's image among women and minorities. The gaffe has prompted a flurry of vitriolic criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike, culminating in the proposal of a Senate Resolution urging the President to request Watt to resign...
Supposedly, Watt's job is to protect the environment. His track record as Interior Secretary, however, would lead one to believe otherwise. He subscribes to the "multiple use" concept of land management plunder rather than preserve...
...social or political aspects of the film. For instance, they insist that the opening scene--a striking closeup of Daniel detachedly and encyclopedically describing the procedure of electrocution--is an artistic device. Lumet, who directed the film in addition to co-producing with Doctorow, calls the scene an interior monologue, designed to reveal how Daniel is objectively attempting to make sense of what happened to his parents. Doctorow, who wrote the screenplay, insists it is an element in a completely fictional psychological portrait of a young man. Both reject any suggestion that, with its documentary aspects, the sequence also makes...
...sweep of terror, China under the Cultural Revolution was the equivalent of Nazi Germany. Thugs, Red Guard bands and idealists fought in the cities, all rivaling one another to show loyalty to Mao Thought. Stories from the interior convey the sweep of the violence. In Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, the handsome old government palace was blown to bits by Red Guards; in its place they erected a new hall filled only with portraits of Mao. In Chongqing, workers fought each other with machine guns, artillery, armored cars and tanks. In Harbin, the factions used air planes to bomb each other...