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...protestors as so many warm male bodies, grains at the camera and says, "Not necessarily." The double-meaning here is central to Warhol's cinema, as it reveals the ease with which two people can escape one another completely. In Warhol's films, people talk at one another, strive for self-definition and expression, and are either too emotionally bombed-out to succeed or else posses too weak a vocabulary. In his dealings with language breakdown, as well as in being prolific, Warhol is our Godard. But where Godard treats subjects with increasingly pedantic seriousness, Warhol still makes grimly hilarious...
...Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive...
...need's not strive...
...best thing about the show has to be the choice of the property. It is in the nature of Grant-in-Aid productions to possess mass appeal, or to strive for it. The last two, Guys and Dolls and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, were obviously drawn from the approved list of sure-fire musicals. Everyone had seen them both, and the film version of Forum even played simultaneously with the Grant-in-Aid rendering. Anything Goes comes off the same list, but it's been infrequently produced, and its score more heard-of-than...
...believes that if Christianity is to mean anything to man today, it must strive to narrow the gulf between the "silent suffering" in underdeveloped lands and the affluence of "Technocratic, sophisticated civilization." He expressed the hope that "those who may not understand my words may be touched by my decision." Besides, he quipped, "I don't think that being a cardinal is a hindrance to doing good...