Word: moms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole, however, the film is quite honest, certainly more so than most of the college recruiting genre. (I remember seeing one about Brown, a flashback affair concerning a close-cropped kid in white socks sitting on the library steps writing a letter home to Mom and Dad. Princeton that year toured with a 45-minute Howard Cosell-esque masterpiece about the basketball career of Bill Bradley.) There are some wonderful classroom scenes and a great interview with a freshman playing catch in the Yard, his pithy comments about the variety of options open to a Harvard student metered...
Gloria, who changes her name to Witch Gliz while on the ritual lam from Mom's suburban Detroit subdivision, learns by doing and then recording her doings in a breezy diary. Sex, dope, kindness, generosity and communal living are good things because they make her feel good. Fortunately, imminent incest gives off bad vibrations before the big clutch...
...families in this community who can pay the kind of money some of these so-called radicals can. In the end, like always, it is the black community which suffers the brunt of all this . . . these people, when they've finished playing revolution can always go home to mom-especially if they run out of money. We don't have that option...
Confrontation politics, an acceptable tactic for those who shun terrorism, had become as American as Mom (partly because some Moms participated too). But for many, the vibrations are now gone. Radical Law Student Ted Siff of the University of Texas says the feeling is, "Why try at all if all you are going to do is maybe get busted and bring on the far right?" The sweeping and angry protests of the Cambodian spring, the resolute demands and plans for restructuring the universities, and the energies expended on getting out the vote?all such events are viewed, despite some evidence...
...specializes in snapshots of excrement, he is your average apathetic male set upon by a conventionally aggressive female named Patsy (Marcia Rodd). Her pursuit of Alfred is typical Feiffer: overpowering feminity frustrated by Silly Putty masculinity. Her father (Vincent Gardenia) bellows like the urban Babbitt he is while Mom amuses Alfred with pictures of her dead son. Another sibling snivels around the apartment in sexual ambiguity...