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...sniveling, pregnant teenager whose child does not even turn out to be his-a murderous rage is born. Jimmie realizes that the white side of his nature is as doomed to suffocation as the black. Cheated by his employers, taunted and humiliated beyond endurance, he undertakes mayhem as a sort of mad ritual, an attempt to be for once the white man's priest and judge instead of his willing nigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Marrow | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

Woody Allen should have taken a shot at Inside the Third Reich. Or even The Naked Ape. Dr. David Reuben's well-scrubbed almanac of sexual aid and comfort only affords Woody another opportunity to turn mating rites into mayhem. It was an opportunity he ought to have passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flailings and Failings | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Everything is indeed up to date in Kansas City. They manage to offer a technique of slaughter there that is novel even for this age of mayhem. The boys at the meat-packing plant resent the intrusion of the boss's agent from Chicago, so they send him through the grinder, pack him up and ship him back home as a string of wieners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ground Round | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...equivalent of 500 to 5,000 marijuana cigarettes. These heavy users, say the doctors in the Archives of General Psychiatry, were in a "chronic intoxicated state marked by apathy and lethargy," that kept them from functioning in their normal jobs. They apparently felt no impulse toward violence or mayhem. In fact the drug induced a condition of general torpor. Another group of 115 heavy users had severe psychotic (schizophrenic) reactions; of them, only three had stuck to hash exclusively, while 112 sought to enhance their highs with multiple drugs-hashish plus alcohol, LSD (acid) or amphetamines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hashaholics | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...Godfrey Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) who made their movie debut in the casual, sometimes chaotic comedy thriller Cotton Comes to Harlem (1969). In Charleston Blue, Director Mark Warren shows a boisterous if somewhat blatant sense of fun as well as a knack for dealing with mayhem. Charleston Blue is like slaphappy and violent vaudeville. Under the guise of cleaning up the ghetto, a flashy fashion photographer called Painter is rerouting all the Mafia's heroin traffic through his own hands. Johnson and the Digger are on to him pretty early in the game, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Seconds | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

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