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Easy Rider is directed in consummately trippy fashion by Hopper, who once had an intensely hip handlebar mustache before he went on to portray drunks and psychopaths in 80s films. He and Fonda virtually define late 60s cool here, at once aloof (or stoned) and utterly self-righteous. Yet despite the absurdity of their ideas and appearance, the freaks in this film do seem to be free, if only in a very misguided way, and seem infinitely preferable to the straight-laced types they combat. It's hard to describe a film in which every other word...
...evening consists of three one-act parodies of other playwrights, introduced by a Mrs. Sorken, a batty theater-party lady with a happy grin and the same strange power of mental disassociation seen in Sister Mary Ignatius; that Mrs. Sorken is portrayed by Elizabeth Franz (who also created the part of Sister Mary) makes the resemblance inevitable. But while Sister Mary expressed Durang's rage about life, God and the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, all Franz can portray here is his annoyance with the modern theater, which is certainly interesting but not worth three ten-minute monologues...
Those on Hahn's side portray her as a devout follower of Bakker's who was spiritually and emotionally "shattered" by the tryst. Hahn told her pastor, the Rev. Gene Profeta, about the incident. Profeta consulted his friend Paul R. Roper, a business consultant in Anaheim, Calif., and self-appointed monitor of clergy skulduggery. John Stewart, a Christian broadcaster and teacher at ! the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California, became Roper's partner in the project. Hahn told Roper that Bakker had pressured her into sex. Roper says, "She was overwhelmed by being in the presence of this...
...free-thinking woman I was disgusted by an article straining to portray a developing discipline as a vapid political concession wrested from the establishment by shrews. And clever jibes at the new concentration--like writing women's thought as women's "thought"--fall short as cutting criticisms...
Throughout the case, Pollard's attorneys attempted to portray their client as an idealistic Zionist whose actions were based on his concern for Israel's security and survival. The prosecution, however, pointed out that Pollard had received some $50,000 for his espionage and, had he remained in the service of the Israelis for an additional nine years, would have wound up with at least...