Word: refering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tourist brochures fancifully refer to it as the "eighth continent," a palm-fringed paradise of emerald bays, gleaming beaches and sybaritic hotels. Just beyond the thin strips of sand, however, lies a very different West Indian world, one of discontent and outright anger...
...THERE are several reasons why The Strawberry Statement and its counterpart, Getting Straight, do not explain the "youth culture," the "campus unrest," or any of various movements which people refer to as "the revolution...
...good laugh about that, he tops off a halcyon evening by dragging her into a used-car lot and pouring battery acid over her face. Naturally she is scarred for life. She takes up residence in a dilapidated shack with two other freaks (as they flippantly refer to themselves). One is a crippled homosexual (Robert Moore) and the other a good-looking, good-natured bumbler (Ken Howard) who throws horrible fits just often enough to keep the action moving. Of course, everyone in town despises them except the local fishmonger (James Coco), who springs for a weekend romp...
Negligible as a piece of film making, The Strawberry Statement is an interesting study in Hollywood exploitation, a classic "rip-off," as kids these days refer to robbery. The film makers ignored the issue of campus politics (the one real revolutionary is portrayed as a speed freak who wears an eye patch and talks like a paranoid Long John Silver), and produced something that might be called Andy Hardy Gets Busted. A few more films like Getting Straight (TIME, May 18) and The Strawberry Statement, and students may begin occupying what is left of MGM's offices instead...
...refer here, of course, to a true decide widely held, not to that deceitful McCarthy kind which merely masks a drive for power. Much of the explanation for the growth among us of intolerant attitudes and the acceptance of destructive styles of behavior which should be anathema in academic societies is undoubtedly to be found in such considerations...