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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bulletproof glass and riot shutters guard the main entrance. A tunnel enables employees to enter the building from a parking lot, and all must carry cards to gain admittance. Even so, last week a militant black leader managed to slip in and appear in the city room to berate an editor. Simultaneously, the editor's phone rang. It was a proud guard, calling to report that he had stopped two men trying to get by. They turned out to be FBI agents...
SINCE the monetary crisis of last fall, the main prop under the French franc has been the stubborn pride of Charles de Gaulle. Now, without his formidable non, talk of devaluation of the Continent's weakest currency has assumed a new tone of inevitability. Even the West Germans seem ready to assist in a broader change of currencies by increasing the value of the robust mark. The only real question in France is when and how much...
...with-it seriousness. Susan Sontag-complete with academic sojourns at Oxford and the Sorbonne, and stints as a philosophy teacher-has proved to be just the girl to play tuned-in scholar to the age of McLuhan. In this, her second collection of essays, she continues to develop the main lines established by an earlier book, Against Interpretation...
Anyway, Hieronymous, the main character, is a movie star, writer, and every other kind of icon, who, at the beginning of the movie and sporadically throughout, is shown unreeling the rushes of a film autobiography (by chapters) in front of his grandmother and children. He is forty while this is happening; his birthday was yesterday. Mercy was longer ago than that, before his impregnation of and marriage to Polyester Poontang--but she haunts the film, nevertheless. The film has been made as a sort of sexual monument, with poetic love introduced only occasionally, each time in Mercy's image...
...group, which calls itself "Faith, the Essential Foundation," say their main concern is to rewrite the "Golden Rule" to include goodness...