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...this were a film about another assassination-say, a plot to kill the board chairman of a large corporation-the tedium of Miller's direction, the dry rot of Trumbo's writing, would quickly do it in. Instead, the movie is kept going by the baleful novelty of being about Kennedy. Whatever factual points the movie might have made are inextricably mixed up in trappings that would have seemed awkward even in a creaky TV series like Foreign Intrigue. The existence of a double for Oswald is not made even dramatically credible; yet the movie and the assassination...
What does it mean? That the Executive understands that only by delegating responsibilities can any social organization be innovative, resist rot and, as is today demanded, figure its way out of the disasters caused directly by the inevitable miscalculations and misperceptions of central power. Central power is preoccupied in every known instance, with the preservation of privilege and not with innovation and creativity, things that inevitably challenge accreted and self-serving, non-creative authority...
...smoke. (Crossing that bridge when they got to it, get it?) And, finally, we see the ever-pensive Stephen Stills explaining that songs are written for self-assurance and that when the New Age comes, we won't need words. One can only wonder if marijuana really does rot the brain...
...theater changeroom to the sake bar, from teahouse to whorehouse-was populated by actors, balladeers, pimps, wrestlers, inquisitive artists and, above all, every class and kind of girl. Japan now experienced a split between country virtues and big-city decadence, and its conservatives bewailed the fact, especially when the rot seemed to have invaded the Imperial Palace. "His Highness (the Emperor) sings songs called nagebushi," complained one lord in 1718. "These are licentious tunes. It is extremely improper that a descendant of the revered Sun Goddess should do such things . . . which not even a right-thinking shopkeeper would...
...CORRUPTION OF the Nixon Administration was again confirmed Wednesday. Vice President Agnew's resignation and admission of tax evasion reflects the pervasive rot that infests the Executive Branch of the Federal Government...