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Gunter Grass, the German writer and active supporter of Willy Brandt, has described himself as a snail. His latest book, From the Diary of a Snail, has as its organizing motif metaphors about snails. When he is pressed by an interviewer's question Grass often answers with a disarming "ah yes but my party is a party of snails." Collecting snails--this is the hobby of the fictional personification of Doubt in Nazi Germany, a character, also called Hermann Ott, in Grass's book. Melancholia and the achievement of political "stasis in progress" are two of the themes which dignify...
...Drum--and as a sculptor, before he began to write. He deliberately rolls a cigarette while answering questions, and his time on the campaign trail for Brandt's socialists has taught him not exactly to dodge difficult questions but to slip almost unnoticeable away from them--like maybe a snail...
...peace crawls closer on the wings of a snail, we can ask ourselves how we can stop being Germans and become Americans again. It won't be easy. This year's election campaign in the German Federal Republic is the first since World War Two in which a candidate for Chancellor appealed to national pride and honor. The candidate--Willy Brandt--felt he could make such an appeal only because he had fled the Nazi regime and worked on behalf of the anti-Nazi regime and worked on behalf of the anti-Nazi resistance. Only a handful of Americans have...
...determine whether or not Rhodesians favored an agreement worked out by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home to end the seven-year-old dispute over independence. The agreement called for British recognition of Smith's white-supremacist government and a snail's-pace apportionment of political power to Rhodesia's 5,000,000 blacks...
Bakshi's animation is good, and the visuals-which marvelously capture the grainy, lowering look of the Manhattan streetscape-are raucous, ingenious and convincing. But Fritz the Cat is, for a cartoon, exasperatingly slow: Bakshi's sense of pace and editing is snail-like, and the dialogue mostly naive and muffled. Moreover, the characters are so ill-defined that Fritz's relation to them becomes incomprehensible-a sad defect for a movie that should have been as crisp and schematic as a puppet show. The voice-over acting constantly hovers just below the threshold of competence...