Word: rage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These films depict, after all, nonsensical, episodic, comic sex -- hardly the stuff of "adult" life. I can't imagine what kind of perversity or anti-social behavior they could generate except, perhaps, an occasional fist through the ticket-window in blind rage at the exorbitant prices charged to see them...
...conventionally liberal ideas or his stolidly workmanlike prose, that has made him one of the most popular ornaments of contemporary fiction; for his devices have allowed him to comment with sadness, affection and humor about absurdities that drive lesser men to mere frothing at the mouth and black rage...
When Hugo finally lays this out, the documentation of the three-day interrogation is so exhaustive that neither the audience nor Santore is able to deny its truth. In a fit of rage, Santore lashes out and the last pretense falls away: "You're subversives, communists... you are an enemy who must be fought in every possible way." He thus reveals the bankruptcy of his position. Claiming to protect society, he admits that no means is too reprehensible or unfair to achieve his ends. Proclaiming freedom, he defends oppression. Glorifying equality, he defends privilege. Invoking the value of human life...
Each time, the pair leaves a minatory message signed AHIAR deploring mistreatment of animals. Press and public think them some sort of crank offshoot of the IRA, but the initials come straight from William Blake: "A Rob in Redbreast in a Cage/ Puts all Heaven in a Rage...
...tree of life) to a book called Animals, Men and Morals. An ultra-worthy anthology, which goes way beyond anti-blood-sport rhetoric, Animals (Taplinger; $6.50) has been widely unread. Much of its message has been palatably repackaged as a sugar-coated pill in All Heaven in a Rage. Whether the public will lick off the sugar and leave the pill behind is a question. Timothy Foote