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...epic displays of Monday-morning quarterbacking are, unfortunately, barometers of our current paranoid scene. Why blame the Kennedy myth on Kennedy? The American people created the myth. It was the last thing we did as a whole...
...damage was complete. The drug deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were symbolic; across the country, thousands were dying of overdoses, needle infections and drug-related accidents. Terrorized by the influx of debilitating drugs, diluted by Woolworth hippies, the movement limped through the past two years a paranoid, fragmented version of its former self. Its political wing, which served mainly as theater, degenerated into bad theater, then the insane violence of the Weatherman. No longer buoyed by hope of a gradual takeover of the System, the culture finally faced up to the fact that General Motors was not going...
Dance now, says Feiffer, pay the piper later. It is a terrible price. Patsy is murdered in Alfred's arms by an anonymous sniper, and a grisly, incoherent tale of urban warfare ensues. Doors are padlocked, windows are shuttered, rifles are broken out. A paranoid detective (Alan Arkin) tries to solve Patsy's murder -and 344 other unsolved killings -amid drumfire volleys of sniper fire. Alfred lapses into catatonia, reviving just in time to command a witless, meaningless shooting spree...
...reader of only moderate paranoid tendencies might easily persuade himself that this pop-lit fantasy about a NASA Mars flight sabotaged by left-wing skul-duggers is a deliberate attack by Author Drury on the vital fluids of his audience...
...Blissfully unaware that their bigoted and paranoid outlook makes shambles of scholarship and learning, the black critics of Soc Sci 5 seek to reduce the course to a platform for black nationalist propaganda...