Word: pr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlie Schuyler's memoirs are considerably more omniscient than those of his obscure model. For they include Burr's own memoirs as dictated to Charlie, his would-be biographer. The Burr sections are Vidal's skillful précis of Aaron Burr's actual letters and diaries, containing intimate justifications for his adventures and intrigues. Burr, the sardonic wit, constantly sees through labels like Republican and Federalist to such common denominators as hunger for glory, power and the preservation of privilege. He talks of Washington's "eerie incompetence" as a military leader, while admiring...
...promises to work for the abolition of PR. "The PR system was instituted by the Yanks to get the Irish out of politics," he said. "I think it's a rotten system...
...only fitting that in this uniquely heterogeneous city there should be a unique system of voting: Proportional Representation (PR). Designed to give minority candidates a better chance in elections, PR was used by some 25 American cities at the turn of the century. However, it was abandoned almost everywhere when it worked too well, aiding the election of unpopular minorities...
...minorities are the life-blood of Cambridge--blacks, landlords, the rich, Italians, students, the poor, Catholics, intellectuals, etc. Since each minority is equally unpopular and equally strident in its demands for a share of political power, PR remains in Cambridge, its last pure bastion in the country...
...Paper Chase compare the film with The Graduate, Goodbye Columbus, Summer of '42, and The Last Picture Show. It's a pretentious, if typical, PR device. There are moments when the film seems as though it belongs in such fast company, but they are rare and due almost entirely to flashes of superb acting from Houseman and Bottoms. (Bottoms, says Bridges, is one of the few actors so expressive that you can film his thoughts...