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...Instructions of My Government, Pierre Salinger, John Kennedy's press secretary, shows himself to be a pretty good Sunday novelist in handling predictable, Drury-style missile-crisis fiction. His troubled protagonist is Sam Hood, U.S. Ambassador to Santa Clara, an Andean republic lying in some spectral dimension between Peru and Bolivia (at the bottom of Lake Titicaca, perhaps). Hood is a seasoned though disillusioned diplomat from J.F.K.'s Alliance for Progress days who disagrees with his new President's policies but must obey orders. When Santa Claran rebels secure a mountaintop where their Chinese supporters intend...
...narrator of Remembrance of Things Past his childhood world of Combray, Follies has its touchstone of memory. The interiorized past is brought to life by an outward object, one of those old, ornate Broadway theaters. Designer Boris Aaronson has made of it a poignantly dilapidated shell where the spectral applause of a thousand opening nights hangs palpably in the air. The showplace is in the demolition phase, as are the people who enter it: chorus girls back for "a first and last reunion...
...purpose was strictly scientific. After returning to work, Rousseau wrung out his sweaty T shirt, collected the perspiration in a flask, evaporated it to a gummy residue, and then carefully analyzed it with an infra-red spectrometer. He found exactly what he was looking for: his sweat exhibited spectral characteristics similar to those of the mysterious and highly controversial substance called polywater...
...Because I see my lifetime of service to music being swept away by the winds of time," came the spectral reply...
...sound of military drums undercuts the hunt, and we are introduced via a slow positive/negative strobe to dignified stills of the white man's armies. Indians on horseback in spectral pinks and oranges gallop to meet the U.S. Cavalry. The ensuing wars are filmed off the television screen and include one brief segment of an American GI gesturing to rows of unmarked graves. Gershfield's use of television implies an awareness that these shoddy images of Injuns stand between us and a real knowledge of how the West was Won from people who already owned the land...