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...community activities, the Panthers won $500,000 in government grants (and the attention of government auditors, who found a number of instances of sloppiness and mismanagement). Even in the midst of these good works, however, there were some violent incidents that seemed to lead back to the Panthers. The ugliest was the murder of Betty Van Patten, 45, the Panthers' earnest white bookkeeper, who in 1975 was found floating in San Francisco Bay with her head bashed in. There were rumors that she might have made enemies by questioning irregularities in party ledgers, but the case has never been...
...also found Schickel's emphasis on homosexuality totally exaggerated. Certainly the film does not warrant his comment, "one of the ugliest sadomasochistic trips, with heavy homosexual overtones, that our thoroughly nasty movie age has ever produced...
...what we have here in fact is one of the ugliest sadomasochistic trips, with heavy homosexual overtones, that our thoroughly nasty movie age has yet produced. Indeed, if the film has any redeeming social value at all, it is to prove that you don't have to be a hairy-chested director of the Sam Peckinpah school to get your kicks on blood and gore. It may also indicate that there are some virtues in the straightforward approach of someone like Peckinpah to violent material. In Midnight Express one imagines the director peering through the viewfinder and murmuring, "Goyaesque...
...sturgeon, one of the biggest, ugliest and most primitive of all fish, would be only an evolutionary oddity were it not for the million little black globules nestled in the average female's ovaries. If Mama is called Acipenser huso and comes from the Black Sea or the Caspian, her eggs may wind up in the U.S. as Iranian or Russian beluga caviar worth $200 a pound. The good news is that federal aid, abetted by academic enterprise, private initiative and a dash of Iron Curtain intrigue, may soon put this exquisite fishy fudge on middle-income toast...
...record--to the contrary, attitudes on the war must be considered central in the assessment of anyone who held high office during those years. Humphrey may not have been an architect of the war policy but in playing the role of supporter he implicated himself in some of its ugliest facets: fudging reports of fact-finding trips, referring to "our finest hour," condoning the clubbings in the streets of Chicago...