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...intelligent Americans dispute the gravity of many ills that afflict the nation, from hard-core unemployment to rotten-core cities, poisoned air to polluted waters, or question the need to attack them vigorously. No amount of legislation will root out racial prejudice or inspire the excellence that is dismayingly absent from many aspects of American life. Nonetheless, as Author Wattenberg points out, "in American history, the evidence suggests that it is the optimist who has been the realist." At least, this side of the Great Society, Americans do not have to be ashamed to count their blessings...
...Heinrich Böll (The Clown), like a brain surgeon performing an exploratory operation, opens up two representative Germans of the war generation: one a merchant, one a soldier. Without comment he inspects the devastation within them. Without comment he sews them up again. Diagnosis: something is rotten in the State of Germany...
...Rotten to the Core. Halfway through this eccentric British comedy about a pack of bumbling criminals, moviegoers whose memories reach back a decade or so are apt to grow nostalgic and inquire rhetorically: Guinness, anyone? Rotten invites comparison to Sir Alec's memorable extralegal capers in The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob, but its low-jinx omits such essentials as wit, slyness and style...
...friend (Charlotte Rampling) is a pert socialite making her criminal debut as the temptress assigned to dazzle a lieutenant of the armed guards, though much of her wickedness is spent in murdering the Queen's English with such nauseous effusions as "how rave-making" or "supremo!" All of Rotten's cast labors mightily. But on recent evidence, England's humor of idiosyncrasy is dead or in extremis, for nothing so dampens the spirit as to see the muse of comedy working up a sweat...
...perform his acts of sorcery and necromancy which, in soaring far beyond logic, disguise an assault upon our political system as a mere amendment to an act to encourage junior league baseball." Douglas charged Dirksen with "deception," with introducing "an awesome and abominable proposal," with trying to give "the rotten-borough legislatures now in operation the power of self-perpetuation," with "sounding the false alarm that the Supreme Court had created chaos in the states," plotting to allow "private utilities" and "big financial interests" to hold a veto against "consumers, wage and salaried workers and the general body of citizens...