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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Carlin's adulthood forces him to engage in some introspection--sorting out his show material (he now leaves only 12 minutes at the end of each show for old material) and some attempts at film. The road to his adulthood, often fraught with rebellion and inner turmoil, mothered the self-expression and irony audiences have come to love Carlin for. Carlin has always been able to articulate, and to parody the sort of conflicts that have become more and more central to youth of America since the '60s: conflicts about sex and decadence and love and identity...
...pressed, he said there was only a fifty-fifty chance that four shots could have been fired. Further, he said his finding could be the result of random statistical error. When Michigan Republican Harold Sawyer grumbled, "I'd hate to sue anybody or prosecute any body on this sort of evidence," Barger just shrugged...
...another glum note. After studying inconclusive results of the one metropolitan-integration plan tried so far, in Louisville, he says it does not seem to work. Whites, denied escape to near suburbs, move farther away, or flee into private schools. Even in sprawling Los Angeles, where, Armor thinks, some sort of metropolitan plan should be instituted and might work, the chances of getting approval seem small...
...Without the slightest fuss, he gives us a portrait of a dutybound professional whose soldierly instincts tell him that his duty this time is madness. Revolt is beyond his character, but disgust is not. Lancaster's presence, carrying with it the memory of other wars (and a different sort of war movie), provides a kind of bench mark against which to measure the distance we have traveled from our former attitudes about the military necessity...
THERE ARE NO really striking songs here, no "Free Bird"s (still the most requested song on Boston radio, an American "Stairway to Heaven") and very little in the lyrics that rises above the sort of "Y'all should love yer brother and fight injustice" sentiment that had become trite even before the cynicism of the last five years slaughtered it completely...