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...Republican, a former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, wrapped himself in the flag almost literally. Roudebush's three claimed achievements in the House were bills prohibiting desecration of the flag, requiring U.S. astronauts to plant only Old Glory on the moon, and making a flag patch part of the uniform of Washington, D.C., police. Not only did Roudebush attack Hartke's stand on Viet Nam, he also put on a TV commercial showing a Viet Cong being handed a rifle. The punch line was that supporting trade with Communist countries, as Hartke does, is like "putting...
Lean supports his matchstick characters with the crudest possible symbolism. Rosy breathes and heaves beside a patch of openmouthed lilies as Doryan appears on the hill. Their couplings-and every potentially significant moment in the film -are drowned by the roar of the surf, the creak of windblown trees, the ta-pocketa-pocketa of a British power generator, and an overpowering score. Perhaps the rudest device of all is the misuse of John Mills as the village idiot who sees all and knows all, but can tell nothing. Like the film itself, it is scarcely worthy of Lean...
Warren Woodward just graduated from a prep school in Connecticut where he led a small ("5 or 6 guys") YAF chapter. The most freak-like of all the delegates (wearing tennis shoes, small round sunglasses, a colored T-shirt, overalls with a "For God and Country" flag patch, and a part in the middle of his longish hair), Warren was the only one to openly question Keene's views on the war by raising an opposing point of view during the question-and-answer period. "I advocated winning for a while, but I've given up. They're Mickey-Mouseing...
...Richards (1833-1905), whose Twilight on the New Jersey Coast might be described as a vision of the archetypal summer sea. Vast and lonely, the painting is devoid of human life. Gently lapping breakers touch the shore, and on the far horizon is a lone ship. On a small patch of beach a gull inspects some flotsam. The ocean is the Atlantic, but it could just as easily be the Indian, the Pacific, or Homer's wine-dark Aegean...
...growing list of endangered species, Walter Hickel should now add the American movie star (Astra americana). Take Julie Andrews-a feat that many people now claim is hard to do. In the '50s, she was My Fair Lady, a patch of sunlight on the American stage. In the '60s, she starred in the most successful film of all time, The Sound of Music. Ah, but then . . . sprinkled with Disney dust in Mary Poppins, way back in 1964 she began to turn into a pillar of sugar. Her marriage came apart, her "big" movie, Star, was the H-bomb...