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...Princeton's Gary Gaspar tied the game in the fourth quarter, and Russ Lynch, with only 51 seconds remaining in the match, scored unassisted and won the game...
...exploitational bases (to the extent of sacrificing all credibility) trip him up from time to time. Perhaps if screenwriter Wexler had spent, say, a month on the screenplay, Joe might have had the uncomplicated force necessary to qualify it as great trashy film-making-a category of which Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley must remain the summer's outstanding example...
...exploitational bases (to the extent of sacrificing all credibility) trips him up from time to time. Perhaps if screenwriter Wexler had spent, say, a month on the screenplay, Joe might have had the uncomplicated force necessary to qualify it as great trashy filmmaking-a category of which Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley must remain the summer's outstanding example...
...Russ Meyer describes with immediacy and candor the ethos of the majoritorian American. He is not an artist, he makes few aesthetic decisions, rather Meyer is a story teller with the same preconceptions and prejudices as his characters. Though his ambitions for film as a creative medium are minimal, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls crystalizes a moment in the history of American aspirations and manners...
Sadly, the new world of Russ Meyer is facile in the same way Billy Graham's world is facile. When Graham spoke to the Honor America Day crowd they cheered not for the old lies about America but Graham's unabashed earnestness. Similarly Meyer's new film reveals his obstinate faith in an ethic no more applicable today than tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. If all along the fire-breathing amazons of his earlier films have wanted the kind of suburban respectability Meyer poses as an ideal, then we have been badly mislead. Good pornography, and there is such...