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...There is today a worldwide crisis of the environment," says Overview's prospectus. "It stems from the extraordinary mass migration from rural to urban areas in all regions of the planet. It stems from a too rapid increase in population. It stems from helter-skelter urbanization in both the developed and underdeveloped nations. It stems from the abuse and misuse of the earth's resources. The Overview Group believes that the crisis of the environment is rooted in shortcomings-in failures of design, failures of planning, failures of politics...
Equally clumsy is the film's direction, the work of Christian Marquand. Every sequence is overlong and overdone. The editing is helter-skelter, with some scenes totally incomprehensible. The color is shoddy and dank; the musical score is too loud and irrelevant. Worst of all, it is highly questionable that Marquand even bothered to direct any of his cast...
Reischauer warned against pulling out of Southeast Asia "in a clumsy, helter-skelter way." Such a withdrawal, he said, would further damage American prestige and cause friendly nations to lose confidence...
...rest of the songs on the album are of varying degrees of goodness, with many many Beatle-like touches of genius (the glittering horns and Paul's singing in "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"; the two tempos in "Helter-Skelter"--Ringo's medium and George's very fast and the precise interchange between them; the ponderous massive build-up to an electrifying flourish in "I'm So Tired"); but they are too often only unsustained touches...
...MANY American cities these various dilemmas are conventionally resolved piece-meal, by helping any group that shows some potential for positive change -- and by choosing, helter-skelter, at any moment among conflicting claims to scarce resources. And, of course, ultimately by yielding to the group which can cause the greatest political problem for City Hall...