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Carter followed this curious intermingling of pulpit and locker-room language with, "Christ says don't consider yourself better than someone else because one guy screws a whole bunch of women while the other guy is loyal to his wife." The comments came after the interview apparently had ended and Carter was standing at the doorway of his home, seemingly unable to shut either the door or his mouth...
...lamest lampoons ever to presume to call itself a parody. For Tunnelvision, the movie, and Tunnelvision, the product of someone's imagination, are nothing more than sickly runts in the litter of modern humor. Burdened with cheap imitations of every kind of TV stereotype, weighed down by bathroom jokes, locker-room laughs and sick dialogue, Tunnelvision never takes off from the swampy ground it starts...
...with the premises of this film. In the first place, the whole tenor and action of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is sexist. McMurphy sees his treatment in the asylum as emasculating and his favorite response to the greyhaired doctors is to startle them with crude '50s locker-room talk. The feminine principle represented by the nurses is that of order--but order conceived of pettiness, primness, and bitchiness, all summed in Nurse Ratched's threat to "tell your mother." The revolt of the masses is put in terms of the all-male ward standing...
Kubacki confided Tuesday that he thinks he may not be ready for the Brown game. But Harvard coach Joe Restic remains optimistic. He said yesterday that despite Kubacki's own doubts and locker-room rumors to the contrary, Kubacki will start for the Crimson on Saturday...
Libidinous Filth. Out of their locker-room context, where hidden anxieties and hostilities trip the giggle reflex, the jokes are not at all funny. Even to Legman they are shocking. "The book is full of material so disgusting that it will make any decent, clean, healthy person want to throw up," he declares. Why then did he spend 41 years collecting and writing the text that accompanies these Augean sweepings of the human psyche? Legman tells us that he began his harvest as a teen-ager in Scranton, Pa., where he was born in 1918. "I got myself...