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...restaurants and bars in the new Met, he suggests that the lights are too bright. As electricians scramble, he calls, "Go on. Go on. Kill them! If we turn them down low enough, we can raise the prices." (Laughter.) Now he sits unnoticed in the back of the auditorium, watching a rehearsal. Then he leaps up, steps over some seats and halts a bevy of girl dancers onstage. "How about raising the hems above the knee? Hmm. Better check the knees first." (Titters.) Now he is off to one of the rehearsal rooms to tend to a soprano...
...wonder why the camera was not equipped with windshield wipers. They may also wonder how Director Desmond Davis and Novelist-Scriptwriter O'Brien, who once collaborated on a shrewd, satirical movie about Ireland (The Girl with Green Eyes), could have failed to add a leaven of Gaelic laughter to this treacle...
...seem to be happy enough about apartheid. "We know what we have is ours, even if it is the gift of the white boss," says Ephraim Tchabalata, who has grown rich on a chain of dry-cleaning establishments and filling stations. The streets of the cities echo with the laughter of Africans, and the townships rock to the Beatle beat of guitars, strummed by young men wearing the cowboy hats that have become the latest rage. But all too often the smiles hide resentment. Says one African: "If I walk in the streets of Johannesburg and a white man kicks...
...American Negro writer has approached the comic posture that Chinua Achebe has achieved toward his own people. His book is worth a ton of documentary journalism. Indeed, he has shown that a mind that observes clearly but feels deeply enough to afford laughter may be more wise than all the politicians and journalists...
Daniel: It's a gibe at the style of newspaper articles . . . You keep forgetting that the starting point for all this is an imaginary situation, not something that actually happened. [Laughter in courtroom...