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...invites caricature. But lately the lampooning of the President has expanded far beyond the cartoonist's drawing board and become a minor genre of the arts. Documentary Film Maker Emile de Antonio has compiled MilLHouse (TIME, Oct. 18), a wickedly derisive splicing of Nixoniana. Novelist Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate) has come forth with The Vertical Smile, a politico-sexual farce whose hero, Duncan Mulligan, is a Wall Street lawyer, transvestite and presidential candidate known, lest anyone miss the point, as "Funky Dune...
...riot in a satire factory. He raged at Western civilization and every last one of its works. He decorticated the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star system with equal and total frenzy. Since the foaming manias of The Oldest Confession and The Manchurian Candidate, Condon's fine, random wrath has aged until it is nothing more than irritability. Once he could have picked up the Republican and Democratic parties by their tails and swung them around his head like a couple of dead cats, as he tries to do in the present novel...
...more, are worth prizing out of their settings to be enjoyed. "She laughed," Condon writes with a bit of the old jazz, in "three low musical tones, deliciously, like a dying sailor's memory of a whorehouse doorbell." Let the dying reader's memory be of The Manchurian Candidate...
Time was when Frankenheimer's movies (The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds) were charged with an almost tangible visual energy, but recently his style has become so severely formal as to be almost academic. He is still capable of tour de force camera work (like a stunning crane shot that travels slowly across a deserted house, making every brick and notch of wood come alive for the eye) but then no one has ever quarreled with his technical vituosity. It is his story sense that has come increasingly into question...
...great upset of the evening was when the ever-unpopular Russian champ, Ivan Koloff, threw the much-loved Manchurian champ, Gorilla Monsoon, into the ropes for the count. The fans were visibly upset by the defeat of the reconstructed former villain...