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...idealistic conviction that they were settling in Eretz Israel, the biblical land of the prophets. Others had more contemporary, political motives. In any case, their zealous nationalism has spawned increasingly violent bouts of intercommunal strife between Arabs and Jews. As the reciprocal hostility has mounted, youthful Jewish settlers often roam among the Arab districts, smashing windows and slashing tires, even invading Arab homes and beating up their occupants. The nationalists have also acquired disproportionate political power and independence within Israel, to the point that some observers fear an outright insurrection might be possible if, for instance, an Israeli government were...
...return to gunboat diplomacy and covert operations--in President Carter's Iranian rescue mission and Congress's freeing the Central Intelligence Agency to roam foreign nations at will--certainly signals the start of that flinging. But Americans who feel that their government has a right to do what it wants in the world as a result of a few years of a nominally moral foreign policy are turning their backs on every lesson in international relations the world has given the U.S. since World...
THOMPSON'S PUBLISHER, played with inappropriate solemnity by Bruno Kirby, serves as a perfect example of Where the Buffalo Roam's failure to explore its observations about life in the Nixon era. As the years pass and his magazine becomes more successful, the publisher trades in his Levis for a three-piece suit and brings his golf clubs to work to practice his putting. But all this character does is rant at Thompson. Linson and Kaye seem afraid to get too serious, so instead of examining or satirizing the publisher's establishmentarianization, they pad his scenes with dumb lines about...
Murray emerges tainted but unscathed from Where the Buffalo Roam's idiotic Big Message scene in which Thompson, confronting Nixon in a men's room, pleads with the president to look out for the "doomed." Nixon leans over the growls the stupidly profound line, "Fuck the doomed." The fact that Murray makes this scene bearable is testimony to his talent...
...film, we rejoin Thompson in his cabin as he bangs out his story. The movie says nothing about the New Journalism or about Thompson's vision. Where the Buffalo Roam ignores Thompson's peculiar optimism, his cynical idealism that makes him distrust the system but hope obstinately for something better. The only insight the film makes into Thompson's character comes when, reflecting upon his bizarre adventures, he sighs, "It never got weird enough...