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...RAGE Directed by GEORGE C. SCOTT Screenplay by PHILIP FRIEDMAN and DAN KLEINMAN
Roughly to this point Rage is a tight, tense suspense melodrama, rigorously and shrewdly staged by Scott, here directing his first feature film. Scott shows a sharp instinct for depicting edgy, nagging uncertainty and isolating a look or a gesture that takes on indefinably ominous implications, as when two doctors quickly clutch each other's forearms in a cabalistic grip. He also plays Dan Logan, with a kind of distance that seems to be restraint at first but comes to look very much like indifference. His performance, like the movie, becomes with each new scene grimmer, more muddled...
Edward Mead's opposition led Margaret to explode in "one of the few fits of feminist rage I have ever had"; it did not keep her from going to college. But at DePauw University, where the 17-year-old Margaret had "expected to become a person," she was confronted instead with "the snobbery and cruelty of the sorority system at its worst." In a college that was then geared to producing Rotarians and garden-club members, her intellectual gifts were a handicap. Her atrocious clothes did not help: to a Kappa rushing party, she wore a dress...
...over the country--including the South. The sequences depicting the one night stands, and encounters with racims give the movie its depth. A scene in which Ku Klux Kinsmen attack Holliday's touring bus is the most memorable. As they swirled outside the vehicle, she is reduced to importent rage. There is nothing that she, a lone black woman, can do against that son of whiteness, except to distill her anger into songs. And that is the message of the movie; it is why Billie Holliday, a black lady, has to sing the black...
...Rage. Tuller's associates at the U.S. Commerce Department were dumbfounded. They considered him to be a mild-mannered humanitarian who worked hard to help blacks in his $26,436-a-year job with the Office of Minority Business Enterprise. Their first reaction was that the work had been too much for him. Said his boss, John Jenkins, a black: "The frustrations build up in a man and can break him down. The system grinds you down." In addition, Tuller had a severe case of diabetes. Last month he submitted his resignation on grounds of ill health...