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...message of the first five primaries seems to confirm the liberals' plight. All but one of their candidates have dropped out. The survivor around whom they are gathering, Morris Udall, still has not won a primary. Even Udall has poured salt on their wounds: he has taken to dropping their label. Udall prefers to call himself a progressive, a description he says sounds less negative...
...keep saying that Johnny doesn't read because he's deprived, hungry and discriminated against," says Jackson. "One of the reasons Johnny does not read well is that Johnny doesn't practice reading." Is Jackson blaming the victims of discrimination and deprivation for their own plight? No, he replies emphatically. "Racism is the enemy," he says. "But it takes strong soldiers to fight a strong enemy, and you don't produce strong soldiers by crying about what the enemy has done...
...Stephen Hayes plays Jesus with straight-faced gentleness (aside from a few Groucho Marx imitations), other members of the ensemble excel at comic vignettes. Mary Soloschin is very funny as a frenetic old miser who heaps up his wealth in storehouses, Michael der Manuelian captures in excruciating grimaces the plight of a parched seed, and Don Marocchio's impersonation of our former president is painfully accurate. Manulis' directorial coup, however, is his dramatization of the parable of the prodigal son, which features strippers enticing the prodigal to the strains of "Hey, Big Spender" and the amazing vocal contortions of David...
THERE ARE MOMENTS when Inserts seems to aspire to tragedy and others when it verges on absurdist farce. The broadly farcical sequences lighten what might otherwise be a plodding melodrama and heighten the pathos of The Boy Wonder's plight. A contrast is effected between The Boy Wonder's intelligence and dedication to cinematic art, and the foolish self-serving idiocy of the world around him. At one point, Stephen Davies as Rex, dubbed the Wonder Dog, an empty-headed young undertaker with visions of film stardom who moonlights as porno stud, proposes a perverse idea for flaunting his masculinity...
...jury followed that exchange intently. Not only were there seven women in the box, but the number of children per juror averaged 3.5-a fact that had pleased Bailey. He assumed that such a jury would be sympathetic to the plight of a girl who was 19 when she was seized...