Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even as Johnson showed signs of growing obduracy on Viet Nam and hinted that he might raise the level of fighting (see THE WORLD), Humphrey has been moving slowly toward the position of critics like Eugene McCarthy. Goaded by McCarthy last week, he took mild issue with the Saigon government's five-year jail sentence for Truong Dinh Dzu, the peace candidate and runner-up in last year's presidential election, who advocated negotiation with the Viet Cong. Humphrey hinted, delicately, that he might even agree with Dzu. "What I'm saying," he declared, "is that...
There are, after all, relatively few steps that need be taken to lower the level of violence in Viet Nam, however difficult each may prove to be in practice. Speaking not as a candidate for President, Hubert Humphrey has called for an immediate cease-fire in Viet Nam. A good many Viet Nam experts question whether a cease-fire ought to be the first step in reducing hostilities since, like the oft-violated Jet truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea...
There is a possibility of integrating the Communists into South Vietnamese politics at a slightly lower level: by legitimizing the Front as a political party so that its members could vie for seats in the National Assembly like any other group. Cabinet seats would be denied them until they had demonstrably earned them at the polls. But, from the U.S. viewpoint, there are grave dangers in such a course. The Communists are far and away the best-organized, most cohesive political force in South Viet Nam, and in a free election could probably attract more votes than the population they...
...implications of the finale are fathomable on a script level, then obscured by the zoom pull-backs that serve as the final shots. Chabrol makes no judgments at the ending and leaves the three in limbo, either to destroy one another or to form a new menage substituting Audran for Christine. The optics of a fast zoom shot are wondrous in that the audience is left with a feeling of simultaneous movement toward action and away from it. At the same time that we move to a higher vantage point with a wider angle of vision, we are jerked away...
...script content, always captivating, seductively able to sustain our need for entertainment, is limitless in its capacity for excellence yet always a subordinate. The discipline we must cultivate is that of understanding statements of edited images. As in all high art, great film teaches. Even on the lowest level of its excellence, The Champagne Murders teaches us to see better