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...enough to the whole structure of the film to talk about. So: skip the rest of this paragraph if you've never forgiven Fred for telling you that the butler did do it.] The film ends, fades to black, and credits appear: David Holzman is played by L. M. Kit Carson; the filmmaker is Jim McBride. What we thought was documentary was the cruelest of lies, for even here screenplay has been passed off as cinema verite . Suddenly, in a numbing Borgesian inversion, the movie turns around on itself. We had come to a final knowledge-filmed life...
Does the list seem familiar? It is. But if Newlove applies his Instant Identifreak Kit too patly and produces some characters who are hardly more than bundles of attributes, many of his human inventions swell like bullfrogs from the sheer pressure of his linguistic vitality. Gabriel himself, with his constantly thwarted desire for transcendence and his unstoppable monologues on everything from sex to Homeric mythology, is a memorable caricature: beside him, the Beat heroes of '50s fiction look not merely anemic but ignorant. Gabriel, simply, is romanticism cubed: "Scrape your brain bare, like a battery electrode, expose your nerves...
...selling them in elegant velvets to women for $80." Mrs. Edmund Howar,* a Washington society leader, took the madness one step further with her appearance at a party last month in a pair of workmen's natural-colored overalls. Her purse, just as naturally, was a tool kit...
...called "Rescue in Space." The schoolchildren divide into two groups: eight astronauts going to Mars in two spaceships, plus ground-control crews responsible for the ships' air, water, food and living space. Once on Mars, one spacecraft breaks down. Given certain limitations, which the teacher reads from the kit's list, the challenge is to create and debate practical ways of bringing all the astronauts safely back in the closed ecological system of a single cramped spaceship...
...There are no winners or losers," says Lassor Blumenthal, a freelance writer who worked on the kit. "The players are all in the same boat." What the discussion basically teaches is the art of making value choices, deer v. developers, for example. Ecologist Golley calls such choices "the strategy of remittance." As Coke's own slogan puts it, the game re-creates "the real thing...