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Fiddler on the Roof. The musical comedy, for all its shmaltz, was great, and the film is a faithful transcription. Norman Jewison directs competently, Oswald Morris's photography is breathtaking, and Topol's Tevye-virile and touching. CHERI I THEATER...
Apart from affecting Wallace's prospects, the Laurel shooting raised depressing questions about the future of political campaigning in the U.S. Would candidates more and more retreat from crowds, withdrawing to armored podiums and television studios in fear that another Bremer or Sirhan or Oswald might be waiting? There seemed no sign of that for the present. Both George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey indicated last week that they would have to continue campaigning as before. Each candidate is now protected by squads of Secret Service men, at a cost of $200,000 a month for each detail, yet there...
...late November 1963, a reclusive 13-year-old boy named Artie Bremer sat transfixed before the TV screen watching the coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Suddenly there on the screen was Jack Ruby busting through a ring of bodyguards to shoot down Lee Harvey Oswald in cold blood. "I remember us watching that on TV together," recalls the boy's father, William Bremer. "Art was impressed with it. Could that have anything to do with what happened...
...People are uneasy on the streets, uneasy in their inner selves. The crime rate-especially violent crime -has mounted alarmingly. No laws have stemmed the tide of handguns that make killing so simple. Authority, legitimate or otherwise, is under attack as never before. Talk about politics is often murderous ("Oswald, where are you now that we need you?"). The Viet Nam War has had a profound effect on the American psyche, not only conditioning it to violence but often creating its own antiwar violence at home...
...Roth and De Antonio can only hope to force some concern over the degenerate state into which political language has fallen. Our Gang is hardly a partisan effort. Although there is a curiously inconsistent logic beneath the book--refusing, for example, to parody Martin Luther King or Lee Harvey Oswald while socking it to Jacqueline Charisma Colossus--as with Millhouse, the enemy is not so much one particular man in power as it is those forces which permitted him to find his way there in the first place...