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MARK RUDD'S sentences don't play back very well on the instant replay. He doesn't prepare what he is going to say in his speeches, and his mind seems to be listening to his own voice, forming its next ideas on the basis of what it hears. And he falls back on using a dogmatic-sounding language of generalization ("imperialism," "corporate expansion," "co-optation") that assume the listener already largely understands the things he is talking about...
...sought fame by mag-nicide, the killing of someone big. In April the murder of Martin Luther King ignited Negro riots in 125 cities that killed 46 people, injured 2,600, and required 55,000 troops to restore order. In June came the second Kennedy assassination, an unbelievable replay of the first, including a blind-chance killer, a meaningless motive, and national grief for a dramatic young leader cut down at the threshold of his powers...
...time Vogue Editor Edna Woolman Chase. "Style one must possess." The Thomas Crown Affair has spent millions on fashion; Faye Dunaway makes 31 smashing costume changes, while Steve McQueen appears in $350 suits and consults a $2,250 Patek Philippe watch. The screen that exhibits them is a flashy replay of Expo 67 techniques, fragmenting into scores of tiny separate images like a mint sheet of stamps, or simultaneously showing five characters in five different places...
...COUPLE. An alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) are at each other's throats again in an almost literal replay of Neil Simon's Broadway...
...Democratic national leadership hopes to avert a replay of the turmoil at Atlantic City in 1964 when insurgent blacks and white civil rights activists, calling themselves the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party, invaded the convention floor. Nonetheless, the Negroes' success last week may prove short-lived. Segregationists among more than 400 whites dominating the state meeting in July could still bulldoze through an all-white slate of delegates, arguing that Negroes had been duly included in the initial selection process. Evers and other black delegates are preparing for an eventual challenge, joining the Freedom Democrats in what could become another...