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...started my lecture with some comments to the effect that in Vietnam, moral issues were paramount, but that I would only discuss two of them and ignore the others (unless, of course, questions were raised)-not because these various moral issues were unimportant but because they were usually too complex to be dealt with in a few short remarks, and that the usual alternatives, simplistic and self-righteous stances, were mostly beside the point. This statement is very different from your lead quote, "Moral issues in the Vietnamese war are beside any point...
...Academy standards-didn't the film deserve a big prize for being one of Hollywood's all time runaway box-office triumphs (well over $30 million so far)? And hadn't Ali's husband, Bob Evans, earned an Oscar or two for his contributions to Paramount's growing profits...
...Sounds: As both branches of the militant cinema agree, images do not speak for themselves. Sounds-which Godard has called "the oppressed track" in the cinema of Nixon Paramount-serve as a force of equal importance as images in dialectical analysis, through linking facts and context. Except in a few direct interviews Solanas maintains a tension between images and sounds such that comprehension develops along parallel and contradictory lines of struggling ideas. The gestaltist impulse to force correspondences produces irony and consequently a sense of the film's materialist superstructure...
...singing just teasing with another eloquent pause? He had been up and down before, but never out. Born in Hoboken, N.J., the son of an Italian immigrant fireman. Winning on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour. Singing with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Becoming "the Voice," playing the Paramount and the Hit Parade to the tune of $1,000,000 a year...
...surgery supposedly has corrected that. He is back on the golf course and still moves with the old deliberate cock-of-the-walk swagger. With his hair transplant and added poundage, he looks healthier-but worse -than the peaked kid with the caved-in cheeks who played the Paramount...