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...Drum. The book sold more than 1,500,000 copies around the world (about 600,000 in the U.S.), as appalled and fascinated readers in 16 languages absorbed the dwarf's devastating, knee-high view of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Oskar's "sing-scream" could shatter glass. His magic drum carried him back and forth in time. One of his best tricks was breaking up Nazi rallies by hiding beneath the speakers' platforms and beating out counterrhythms on the tin drum. In his writing, in his life, Grass has played his own version of Oskar...
...reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence, an awareness of the constant surprise of life, which one rarely finds in a man so old; but he also seems possessed of a certain embryonic fragility. Somehow, I had the impression that I might shatter him if I breathed too hard, as the wind shatters a porcelain statuette placed too near a windowsill. Yet when he spoke, he sounded strong and steady...
...hardly likely to comply. Since 1967, they have followed a Middle East policy designed to achieve what one British diplomat last week described as "stable instability." Moscow wants neither peace nor a fourth round of full-scale war, but rather a situation of churning unrest that would finally shatter whatever influence the U.S. still has with the Arab states. That would allow Russia to become the dominant power in the region. The Soviet policy rests on two premises: 1) a reasonably astute use of Russian weapons and tactics by the Arabs; and 2) a disinclination on the part...
Even the Sharon Tate murderers might have blanched at such a scene -but Ralph Nelson rushes in where cultists fear to tread. In the Mexican Sierras, he is directing Soldier Blue, a film that he modestly describes as "my commentary on war." To shatter any lingering suspense: he is against it. As proof, he is making possibly the most gut-clutching film in history. Based on the Sand Creek Massacre, a notorious 1864 slaughter of Cheyenne warriors, women and children, Soldier Blue is a congeries of atrocities...
Essentially, however, M.A.S.H. is not an actor's movie. Its furious humor arises from the collaboration of Lardner and Airman, who swing the scenario like a baseball bat. Not infrequently, they shatter the wrong objectives; a parody of the Last Supper, for example, is utterly without wit or point. But most of the time the film is a moon reflecting the sun of battle. War assaults taste, language, sense itself. So do the soldiers who fight it. So do the doctors who aid the soldiers. So does M.A.S.H., animated with a dangerously robust sick humor and a highly civilized...