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...distributors shunned it. But black audiences loved Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a foxy film centering around an outlaw from the ghetto who throws down girls-white and black -the way Billy the Kid tossed back sarsaparilla. In the end he gets away with everything. Huey Newton, Black Panther defense minister, called it "the first truly revolutionary black film...
...bank with his young buddy (Ryan O'Neal). It is a role that owes much to the character he created in The Wild Bunch, and the film itself owes similar debts to such illustrious predecessors as Red River and The Searchers. Writer-Director Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, Darling Lili) is more at home with gilded entertainments than campfire yarns. There is the distinct feeling about Wild Rovers that Edwards could not wait to get off the prairie and back to the penthouse...
...Pawnbroker, The Group), who has never shown a scintilla of genuine wit, aims for nothing less than political satire. Since Duke's parole, it seems, he has had no secrets that the cops do not know instantly. When he consults a black driver who lives above a Panther storefront, Duke's schemes are electronically processed. T-men tune in on his conversations with Angelo; even the apartment of Duke's mistress (Dyan Cannon) is tapped by a jealous lover. As the plans unfurl, the eavesdroppers are heavily lampooned. America, in a supposedly shattering revelation, is shown...
...patch messages concern sex. Appliqués allow the wearer to spell out practically anything that he is concerned with at the moment-peace, pot or politics. There are patches reading WORK FOR PEACE and some in the shape of doves and peace symbols. Others portray the Black Panther fist salute, the Puerto Rican flag and a Chicago police badge. One of the more elaborate looks like a marijuana plant and is inscribed with the slogan...
Articles by less famous polemicists have also had considerable impact. From exile in Algiers, Black Panther Richard Moore wrote a piece accusing Panther Huey P. Newton of substituting slogans for action, castigating the Times as "the organ of the ruling class" and condemning the "Fascist Farce of a Trial Presided over by the evil likes of [Judge] John Murtagh," from whose court Moore had fled. As the Times clearly intended, its Op-Ed has provided an occasional beam of fresh light on familiar topics. Edward C. Banfield, a professor of government at Harvard, described "the lower class" as not necessarily...