Word: kunen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little available sympathy for those of us youths who have inwardly cringed each time another self-appointed spokesman has raised his newly-published head. But how do you tell that to the folks back in Winnetka or Scarsdale, how do you explain that not every documented utterance of a Kunen and Kelman, or Mungo and Gerzon altogether matches up with your own private view of the world? The already panicking adult community is not apt to have much patience with our own whining protest that we too are being equally victimized-even if only by our own more vocal peers...
...radicals who did drift in were taken aback. Said James S. Kunen, a veteran of the 1968 Columbia bust and author of The Strawberry Statement: "I didn't think they could find this many straight kids in America...
...story itself is a highly romanticized recount of a strike and bust at a place called Western, but it is understood that the location is Columbia. Horovitz, of course, got the idea for the movie from James Kunen's book about the Columbia Strike. He went on to construct his own fanciful plot. The center of attention is a crew jock, nice boy though, who becomes "radicalized" during the strike. He endures taunts and even a bloody nose from his friends, some of whom he radicalizes in turn...
...against the wall, MGM. They have taken James Simon Kunen's straightforward memoirs of the 1968 Columbia riots and turned them into a homogenized and dishonest movie about student politics whose central thesis is that the kids are only in it for the action -the sexy action. The Strawberry Statement has about as much to do with Kunen's book as the film The Ten Commandments had to do with the tablets...
Directed by Stuart Hagmann and written by Israel Horovitz, Strawberry Statement is based on James Kunen's informal memoirs of the Columbia University rebellion of 1968. "I want to reach Sam and Samantha in Aurora, Illinois," Hagmann says. "I want people to say, That's just like my kids.' " If Sam and Samantha say anything of the sort, it will be because their kids have taken up campus revolution for no more discernible reasons than sex and excitement. Despite endless minutes of sirens, screams, clubs and tear gas at the finale, Strawberry Statement only manages to make...