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Surely the aristocratic signers of this document did not think that the weaver, tanner and tavern keeper were their equals. Let those who insist on twisting the facts consider the facts of history: all the Southern signers of this famous document were slaveholders-including our first President...
...white creatures spit bullets in Mr. Charlie's small Southern town. Baldwin's battle of the races pits Lyle Britten (Rip Torn), a poor-white grocery-store keeper, against Richard Henry (Al Freeman Jr.), an ex-dope addict recently returned from New York and the son of the local Negro pastor. Both men are deformed spirits, the white envenomed by poverty, the Negro by hatred of his father and his father's compromises with oppression. Arrogant, mocking, indefensible in his behavior, Henry humiliates Britten in front of Britten's wife. The white man demands an apology...
...gangs still fought, but their hearts weren't in it. Their small crimes continued-"scrumping in orchards and gardens, letting ourselves in and out of the park keeper's shed to make a cup of tea"-but "criminal boys" lost their prestige to "romantic boys," and the romantics all formed rock groups. The local fish and chips joint, "the chippy on the turf," lost its glamour-everybody wanted to go home to listen to Elvis records. Meetings and war councils were delayed so the fellows could catch the rock show on the telly...
...always trying to make a monkey out of modern art. This time it was Peter, 4½, a West African chimpanzee with a penchant for paint, who lives in Sweden's Boras zoo. Newsmen on the Goteborgs-Tidningen, a Goteborg daily, got Peter's 17-year-old keeper to give him a brush and oil paints. Peter took to daubing like a duck to water. He painted all over the floor; he painted all over his keeper; he even painted all over a few canvases. He ate whole tubes of cobalt blue, leading to the speculation that...
...players, I thought Ginio Morris, as a hag, and Godbold McDonald, as the madhouse keeper, were superb. Most effective bit-part honors must go to Joseph R. Scott, however. He played the bagpipes for five minutes in the third entr'acte...