Word: paladins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever there is an unpopular cause that most lawyers would not dare touch, Bill Kunstler seems to show up as defense counsel. Kunstler, a Manhattan attorney, is a kind of courtroom paladin who specializes in protecting the right of dissent and even civil disobedience His recent clients include the Black Panthers, Negro Militant Rap Brown Yippie Jerry Rubin, and Roman Catholic draft protesters in Milwaukee and Baltimore. Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument...
...Lawrence was a paladin of explicit sex in a world still impressed by censors; he might be surprised to see how his novella The Fox had to be fixed up for 1968 movie audiences. Sex had to be put in rather than taken out. Director Mark Rydell has seen fit to heat his movie up with three gratuitous physical set-tos-girl and man in hunting cabin, girl and girl in bed, girl and herself in bathroom. The result is slick, sick psychological melodrama...
...Negro hood with a 187 IQ--who quotes literature with a Paladin-like facility--has killed his prostitute mother with an ice pick. He hides in the candy store of a German who deserted his Jewish wife and son to fight for the Communists against the Nazis; but who ended up running carloads of Jews to concentration camps, and now pretends to have been a Jewish concentration camp victim. Finally, Rosie, and NYU coed who wants to be a writer, drops in on her way to the abortionist...
...true that a defense of this gratuitousness could be made; after all, Mifune is cast as another Paladin, a wandering outsider who lends his strength more or less arbitrarily to those who need it. My objection is to the handling of Mifune's relationship with his proteges...
...paladin in a turban...