Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Issues of the Day, like racial tension, the War, the draft, revolution, etc. He's not too good at dealing with these ideas, and he ended up dumping all his social messages on one character: a black motorcyclist, who left America because of the draft and who nearly hijacks Mr. Vixen's plane to Cuba to promote racial justice. Meyer could have done himself and his viewers a big favor by cutting all the "relevant" scenes. There's no reason in the world that Vixen should be wasting time casting racial slurs at the motorcyclist, when she could as easily...
Some of the effects of this preparatory brainwashing are already apparent. A number of persons have remarked to me that they are relieved to see Mr. Hyland make a distinction between property and persons: bomb buildings only after 5, he writes, when the people who work there are more likely to have gone home. Similarly, many students and faculty have comforted themselves with the thought that the Harvard-Radcliffe SDS have condemned the Weatherman assault on the CFIA an act of violence against working people. Yet there is nothing in the morality of Mr. Hyland or the local SDS that...
...responsible for this film is Russ Meyer. He wrote the "story," directed the action, did some of the camerawork, and presumably coached his actors thrugh the crucial scenes. Meyer has a long and distinguished background in this kind of work (his early-60's classic. The Immoral Mr. Teas. won him world-wide fame as "the sailor's friend"), and his firm influence shows in every scene...
There is an old Indian saying that the quickest cure for a headache is to cut off one's head. Mr. Hyland. if he were to be a doctor and practicing amongst the oppressed peoples of India, would, by this criterion, be a really effective doctor...
...Another training session. Every day, again and again, one salesman is selected to play the role of salesman and two others play Mr. and Mrs. Jones. And everybody has to act excited by the show although they have heard it dozens of times...