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There are not enough of these moments to save the picture, but they do make one eager for the writer's first effort in what is surely his true metier - the pamphlet...
Outraged by this episode, Barret quits her job as Sussman's assistant and asks Prince to join her in writing a pamphlet exposing the industry's blacklist. But Prince, content with the benefits he is reaping from the system, has no intention of ruining his secure position. That position, of course, is not as secure as Prince thinks, and he discovers the perilous consequences of the witch-hunt mentality when he, too is investigated by Hennesey and subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. His appearance before that committee forces Prince to confront what he has tried to ignore...
Smith's media campaign consists of a four-page pamphlet that he put together himself for his '74 campaign. The toll of running then, in what Smith called a "hotly contested" race, came from emotional anxiety rather than Smith's wallet. He took on five opponents and spent only...
...literary critics have approached the legacy of Louis-Ferdinand Celine with trepidation, if they have deigned to remember his contribution to French literature at all. He was an unsavory fellow: perceived as a political turncoat; ungrateful towards his staunchest friends; a convicted Nazi collaborator. In an epigraph to his pamphlet called Mea Culpa, Celine taunted, "There are still a few hatreds that I lack. I am sure that they exist." Hatred is a distasteful and difficult subject...
...motivated less by reason than by sheer emotion and petty frustration. Mea Culpa, for example, was partly a virulent response to the rejection of Celine's script for a ballet by the Marinski Theater in Leningrad, although his failure as a choreographer and scenarist never enters into the pamphlet. A similar flopped attempt at film writing in Hollywood set his anti-semitism ludicrously into gear: "The Hollywood Jews ... know what a pretty girl is. Ah Goldwyn Mayer! I would have given ten years of my life to sit for one moment in their armchairs. All those goddesses at my mercy...