Word: propped
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White critics. it seems, are running so scared that they either praise the film as art or write it off as necessary agit-prop. And the fantastic box-office success has probably compounded their intimidation. I would assume, however, the cause of the film's popularity lies in novelty: this is probably the first feature in which ghetto gangs burn a police car and are praised for it. Otherwise, the racially mixed audience I saw the film with snickered throughout van Peeble's "serious moments" as well as his hamhanded satire...
...film that speaks to the heart or mind of the American black militant; and it should be emphasized that it fails solely because of its creator's ineptitude, not because of studio interference or distributor cutting. Van Peeples doesn't know either politics or people, so his agit-prop is neither uplifting or arousing-only sickening. And it smells like a phony...
Next to a naive girl the most important prop is a house. It should be a vast, forbidding domicile replete with walled-in rooms and a name that resounds like the surf it often fronts: Manderley, Mount Mellyn, Castle Crediton...
...kind of advance that the jet was over the prop plane...
...political spectrum in the American university. He is a man who was on the Left when it was hard to be on the Left, who put his career as a director on the line for the right of his actors to use the American flag on stage as a prop, who paid his dues to the Movement long ago. But now he has chosen to lash out against those to his left in a tone of frenzied polemic which insures that they will never take him seriously. He has argued a number of points which are, in themselves, eminently reasonable...