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There are brilliant moments in the film, moments in which Rafelson has crystallized what-it's-like-now and why-everything-is-so-depressing. Helena Kallianiotes as a dykey hitchhiker who is obsessed with ecology ("All this crap!") and mankind ("Man-man is such a shit! ") is a brilliant parody of an elusive type, the ardent but empty-headed advocate of well-intentioned but flaccid causes. (That she is portrayed as a Lesbian-in fact, that the more insipid characters of the film are women-betrays a nasty truth about the movie.) The bowling, beer, and sex scenes...
JACKSON: Economically and politically, we suffer from a man-boy relationship because we're dependent upon whites. We're saying that the relationships for the future have to be man-man relationships, based upon our mutual need for each other. We must have independence, then interdependence. Blacks must first realize that we are needed. Many blacks who feel impotent don't feel that they can deal with whites, not because they are so corrupt, but because some of us deep down feel so inferior we will not compete. Aeronautics, politics, physics, and history may be dominated...
...street's only eccentric. There is Big Foot, a solemn and terrifying prankster who expresses his view of an unwashed world by getting a job driving a bus, hauling his passengers five miles beyond the city, and then forcing them to get out and bathe. There is Man-Man, who writes random words in the street, repeating a vowel for several blocks if he likes its looks. Author Naipaul, a native of Trinidad, understands well that his comical characters do not live comic lives, and his best sketches are shaded with compassion. When police drag a much...
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...barn near a door which was used by the farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk. A dignified gentleman in front of him suddenly slipped and would have fallen had it not been...
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