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...Ruth Wolff furnishes Christina with a mother who twists heads off dolls and recommends the presence of a dwarf during pregnancy. Christina's father, the King, takes her for a ride one day when he reviews the troops, and dies soon afterward. Director Anthony Harvey has chosen to render this event symbolically, by having a riderless white stallion gallop off toward the sunset through a column of tattered battle flags...
...paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, an unprecedented nation. If we know and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. If we know, we must fight for your life as though it were our own--which it is--and render impassible with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night. letter from James Baldwin to Angela Davis...
Beyond such arithmetics, the nature of the sport makes the daily fray somewhat irrelevant as a contest. Stefan Kanfer has noted that baseball records are the most durable of all sports records and thus render the early days of the sport as significant statistically as the last decade. Other major sports are either too young or too modified to have left recognized landmarks in the 1880s...
...concerning public affairs and prepared at public expense indeed belong to the people. The fact that Presidents historically have disposed of material as they wished is not binding. As the Supreme Court noted in the 1969 case of Powell v. McCormack: "An unconstitutional action ... taken before surely does not render that same action any less unconstitutional at a later date...
Death Wish is ugly not only because of its contentions but because it has the utter gracelessness of a polemic. Director Michael Winner presents what one can only surmise is his neurotic view, and his facile efforts to render the film in an "artistic" way only make it uglier. Charles Bronson and Hope Lange as husband and wife are meant to conjure up domestic felicity, but their relationship is as superficial as the Instamatic photos he takes of her. Bronson, who is supposed to be attractive, has the film presence of a slab of ham. And thus his acts emerge...