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LOOKING BACK on this opening scene after having seen the whole movie, I think maybe Shampoo could have better used as its mood-setting phrase a riddle I spotted on a bathroom wall a few years back: "Why was Nixon never circumcised?" "Because there's no end to that prick." Much more accurately than the portentous statement, "Election Day: November 1968," such a gem of grafitti would have reflected the end of Shampoo's analysis of human behavior. It would have prepared us for what follows, a farce in which the wanton insatiable cocks and cunts of Los Angeles suburbanites...
...some hard-working students, banded into the Carpenter Center Students' Association last Fall, to organize the display of student art appearing in the center this week. Maybe some notion of the worth these students attach to the art they create as well as to the art they study will prick their faculty and administrators in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies; perhaps more than two teachers will lend active support to the next show...
...first volume, Freud's one-time disciple, Otto Rank, analyzes Anais. By the fifth volume, her digressions on neurosis come as a matter of course. With the conviction that personality has ceased to be an enigma, she resolves to deflate her anxieties with keen insight, pretty much like the prick of a needle eliminates balloons. To this end, she doggedly pries apart relationships and scrutinizes the pieces for wear. It turns out that the traits she rebels against in friends often lurk unacknowledged in herself, so that an end to friendships ends external friction, while the sparks smolder inside...
...such trips abroad-three or four a year-that Dom Helder now pins many of his hopes, since in Brazil, he concedes, "we are crushed." At times he has used his foreign platforms for stinging denunciations of terror and torture in Brazil; more often he tries to prick the conscience of the First World for its complicity in the Third World's troubles. He had prepared a biting acceptance speech-not knowing there would be no time to deliver it-for the Harvard commencement. In it he assailed, among other things, "the greed of multinational corporations" and "the injustices...
...defeat of the financing plan for presidential elections is yet another thorn to prick the moral indignation of millions of Americans. The nation now has cause to wonder why the Senate should shy away from a bill that would eliminate illegal corporate contributions, political extortions, and the type of rank criminality that stemmed from a $60 million campaign fund in 1972. The congressional record stands at 0-1 on attempts made to ensure against future Watergates...