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GODARD'S heroes have always been the instruments of his makeshift analysis. The two of Le Gai Savoir are more useful tools than his earlier protagonists could have been- because he has abandoned the naturalistic conventions that restricted their functions. In an ordinary film characters have to play fixed roles; to speak into the camera, or step into new roles, is to break the illusion or convention of reality so many people depend upon. But in a crucial passage of Le Gai Savoir Godard attacks this "ideology of real life." To tell the meaning of a film you must look...
They made their own sound-laughter, interminable rapping, impromptu guitar-plucking, the blare of transistor radios, and finally a makeshift concert by nondescript local bands, with amplifiers powered by two ice-cream trucks. The most distinctive note was the brash hawking of drugs. "Good black hashish for $3.50!" shouted one youth. Countered a bearded pusher: "Buy one tab of acid and get a free tab of smack!" Kids on bad trips were treated by volunteer physicians, and were urged over a makeshift public-address system to "bring a few joints for the doctors." As the week progressed, drug abuse became...
Last Friday morning, 75 local and state police raided the makeshift headquarters of the National Committee to Combat Fascism, an organizing arm of the Black Panther Party, and arrested 19 blacks, including five Boston Panthers. Bail for the 19, most of whom are still in jail, totals $1,200,000. tions Friday and Saturday to protest...
...burned out buildings, Piercinni's Variety Store, became the makeshift Panther headquarters. Police raided the headquarters on a pretext of searching for weapons and for the assailant of Steven Botehlo, a white youth who had been shot in the leg a few hours before...
...shirts, women in assorted styles of pants or skirts, a few motorcycle boys in mustaches and black leather. Whites, blacks, Orientals, Chicanos. Prayers are read. From a chair at the side, a husky 30-year-old man in vestments abruptly rises, steps swiftly out in front of the makeshift altar, and, flashing a beguiling, boyish smile, booms out: "If you love the Lord this morning, say 'Amen!' " "Amen!" roar the 700 worshipers -nearly all of whom are homosexuals. Another service of the Metropolitan Community Church is under...