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...Despite its bloody civil war (1918-22) Stalin's savage purges in the '30s and the devastations of World War II, the Soviet Union has risen to rival American influence around the world. Russia has become the planet's leading producer of crude oil, coal, steel, pig iron, locomotives mineral fertilizers and other products. Soviet scientific accomplishments - from Sputnik to Soyuz to two-headed does - are uneven but often dazzling...
...Porky Pig a menace? Bob Goldman, a San Francisco food-service consultant, thinks so. Says Goldman, a stutterer: "The message of Porky Pig is that we are ridiculous and dull, and can't get a sentence out right...
Offing the pig is only a minor goal of Goldman's National Stuttering Project, which was organized last year and has already expanded into 15 chapters in California, Oregon and Washington. The fledgling N.S.P. regards the nation's 2.6 million stutterers as another oppressed minority and hopes to weld them into a potent lobbying group. "We don't want special treatment, we just want neutrality," says Goldman. "This is what blacks and women have been insisting on, and we want...
Goldman's project may be unable to do anything about that, but it has already scored its first notable success. Following a protest from N.S.P., Oakland television station KTVU stopped showing Porky Pig cartoons. That's all, folks...
Bozzetto's work will be welcomed by the already converted-as it should be-but whether the skeptical will also respond to the film in sizable numbers remains, alas, problematical. Allegro Non Troppo is worth a try-what ever your lingering feelings about Porky Pig.%#151;Richard Schickel