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...demonstrates an encyclopedic eye for their clichés. All eagerly serve Writer Stewart's earnest desire to reduce experience (he is a Navy OCS graduate) to pulp. Never does a satirical gleam enter anyone's eye. The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul. -By Richard Schickel
...Today's graduate," says Patrick, who received his academic discharge 10 years ago, "lives on intellectual junk food. He or she is simply not as bright as he or she was a decade...
...films. He makes a choice; the machine runs a credit check, relays rental information to a central computer and sends his rental tape down the chute, all in about two minutes. If the MovieMat seems designed to fulfill the cin-éaste's nightmare-movies as the ultimate junk food-then RENTABETA, a Los Angeles company, may make the medium as handy as paperbacks. For as little as $2.95 a day, RENTABETA provides a playback unit that weighs 15 lbs. and comes in an indestructible plastic case. About 500 video stores in three Western states are currently renting...
Finally, there is the recently publicized proposal of a former director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Noel Gayler: massive cuts in each side's arsenal without the distraction of classification and verifiability. Gayler suggests that each side simply junk an arbitrary number of warhead of its own choice--whether land-based missile warheads, bombs, or artillery shells--under the supervision of a special international commission. Each side would naturally turn in its most vulnerable weapons, retaining its best deterrent. After a few trial runs with tiny numbers of the uniquely identifiable commodities, larger amounts could be turned...
...unintellectual, who can baffle Europeans. He claims without regret that his mental development stopped at 19. When he says he is not satirizing the amiable suburban householders of Poltergeist, who never turn off their television set, he means it. He has no quarrel with subdivisions, polyester, freeways, patio living, junk food for belly or mind, or people who sometimes seem to be cassette-recorded copies of each other. His lively mind grew out of such a mulch...