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...Mazursky to comment once again (as he did in Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, and in the more ambitious and more interesting Alex in Wonderland) on the folkways of contemporary romance, where an innocent conversation can turn abruptly into a sexual scrimmage, and a tryst into trench warfare. He excels at putting down the trappings and pretensions of the middle-class life of Los Angeles with tart asides on stylish psychiatrists discussing the notion of "sport screwing," teen-age swingers, and hip health-food restaurants where satanic waiters recite the menu like an incantation...
...standing facing the motel's swimming pool when a black youth with a rifle jumped out from some bushes, stared at him for a full second, took aim and fired. Shot through his midsection, Bemish fell into the pool. He pretended to be dead, his air-filled trench coat providing just enough buoyancy to keep him above water...
Laurence Harvey, who once played the Manchurian candidate, appears here as a Moscow commissar, sporting the kind of heavy leather trench coat that suggests Slavic villainy the way a black stetson in a western signals evil. He takes special delight in tor turing Jews. After inflicting one especially impassioned beating, Harvey makes his way out of the traditionally dank subterranean cell as an awestruck underling inquires, "What now? Are you going back to the office...
Forster) is a $20-a-day Hollywood private eye who wears a vest, a trench coat and a Bogart mask of cynicism. "I hope you'll pardon the way I look. I just threw something on," a pretty suspect (Jessica Walter) tells him when he rings her doorbell. "You almost missed," retorts Banyon, in a line that dates from considerably earlier than...
...Maurice Schumann called it "a brutal worsening of the situation." The French newspaper Le Monde said that the Nixon speech, like others made by the President on the war, was "unreal-it is not an ocean which separates the California coast from Indochina but a bottomless political and cultural trench." Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, offering a rare criticism of the U.S., called the blockade "not a wise move," although he sympathized with Nixon's aims...