Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismissed with a laugh the rumor that Lin Piao had been killed in a plane crash while attempting to flee after an abortive coup. "It was intended to give a feeling of insecurity and instability to influence the U. N. vote," he said in an interview before the lecture...
...vivid enough evocation of "police brutality," but it is also a Keystone copout. Why do the vaudevillian police suddenly attack the other dancers? Why does the Spanish lady's flamenco collapse into a laugh-creating parody of itself? The answer, of course, is that those actions titillate theatrically-for an instant. Ballet, an art of linear grace and movement, is even less a medium of pure intellect than painting or opera. But it is not made relevant by playing games with half-digested references to yesterday's headlines...
...descendants will laugh at us for having used gold as a basis for a monetary system just as we laugh at our ancestors for having used fish as money. I fail to see how the world's brilliant Finance Ministers can place such importance on gold, which in the past few decades has only doubled in supply, while world trade has increased tenfold...
Which is not to say that Millhouse isn't at times also quite compassionate. It does tend to laugh at the prune faced conventioneers and D.A.R.'s who applaud Nixon's jeremiads against dope peddlers, his paeons to private enterprise, and his assurances that the only thing "worse than atomic war would be surrender." But, by film's end, it also sees such unsympathetic figures--as well as the urban poor at the Thanksgiving Dinner and even the Nixons themselves--as victims of a culture and a government that no man would want to wish on even his worst...
...deal with a man like Richard Nixon, an unctious, 'umble Uriah Heep, a 24-hour-a-day self-parody: he himself is so funny he pre-empts all other forms of comic abuse. Now Philip Roth is not a writer to be shaken off when there's a laugh to be trailed, shadowed and nabbed. But in reading Our Gang, you get the sense that Richard Nixon did indeed give Roth a run for his money...