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...Sometimes he dreams of assuming authority - or flouting it. In high school, Allen tried to become a featherweight boxer, and spent many an afternoon fleeing the truant officer. Out of experience came a typical self-deprecatory gag. "I wanted to be an FBI man," Woody will moan. "But you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision. Then I toyed with becoming a master criminal-but you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision...
...movie is all jiveass and jungle bunnies. The men (Thalmus Rasulala, Raymond St. Jacques, Jim Watkins) chortle and slap one another's palms. The women (Judy Pace, Margaret Avery) mostly moan and gyrate in transports of synthetic sexual passion. Director Pollack is singularly catholic in his taste for stereotypes...
Humiliating Prospect. At week's end, after the Giants suffered their llth defeat in their last twelve games, Fox could only moan: "Will someone please tell me how to shake an entire team out of a batting slump?" If no one does and those strange September things keep happening, the Giants face the humiliating prospect of finishing second for the sixth time in the past seven seasons...
...they have no regrets. But many older women, and some girls who feel conflict with their religious or ethical upbringing, find the experience psychologically scarring. Cindy, 17 and single, felt exhilarated immediately after her abortion. But when her hospital roommate, going into labor from a saline induction, began to moan with pain, Cindy's cheer gave way to guilt at the ease with which she herself had ended her pregnancy. She broke down and wept...
...moan about the Faculty's "sad experience" seems a trifle absurd. But Hughes is right that the majority of students ran away: the strike collapsed before it got started. A few kids stuck around to man the typewriters and phones at Peace Action Strike; some others canvassed factories and high schools for a few days. The others disappeared. And now September has come, and we're all going back to class (except those who have been kicked out). The sad experience of last May was ours, not the Faculty's. We were so secure in our individual institutional wombs...