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By those criteria, he judged tick . . . tick . . . tick, a movie about a black man who gets elected sheriff of a Southern town, superior to Putney Swope, a raucous but innovative film about a black man who takes over a white ad agency. "I know that is heresy," he wrote. "I...
Baby Powder. In the event last week, the fund-raiser attracted about 1,500 Democratic donors, who paid from $100 to $5,000 each. But much of the money was retained by the Florida State Committee, and the National Committee picked up only about $300,000-hardly enough to keep...
"So the fact that the show is a period piece I don't think has as much to do with the show as the actual conditions which caused it to come into being. The show is ostensibly a put-down of the war, a put-down of war in general...
Sir: From the visual put-down of depicting us as flat, two-dimensional beings existing on cigarettes and ersatz food to the condescension slightly tinged with apprehension of the article, you show clearly the mild contempt of the self-anointed intellectual aristocracy for the stupid middle-class geese who lay...
Gloria arbitrarily accepts Rocky's put-down as her epitaph. Out on the boardwalk and out of the marathon, she aims a pistol at her temple. Then, for the first time, her temerity falters. "Help me," she begs Robert, and Robert obligingly turns the attempted suicide into a murder...