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...been thoroughly polluted, not least by the fact that this family comes not from Switzerland but from suburbia. They seem to have plenty of food and water out there on their atoll, but they are going to bore themselves to death in a month or so-and the viewer with them. Richard Schickel
...camera seems to do strange things to the picture taker, viewer and subject alike. The A.P.'s Peter Arnett recalls watching a Buddhist monk in Viet Nam douse himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. "I could have prevented that immolation," says Arnett. "As a human being, I wanted to; as a reporter, I couldn't." Undoubtedly the issue was further complicated because the monk wanted pictures of his suicide circulated round the world...
...show does mayhem to the visual sense. The viewer is clobbered by an eye-level row of genitals, part of an 8-ft. by 30-ft. nude portrait of Andy Warhol and members of The Factory. Only a few steps away hangs a portrait of President Eisenhower, a crumpled, empty man. It is an assault on the image of Eisenhower that we carry in our minds-the formal Karsh portrait, the White House handout, and the hundreds of others...
...Oscar Levant is shown as a fading Neanderthal man. The 40-ft.-wide mural of the eleven-member American Mission Council to Saigon (TIME, April 21) during the Viet Nam War (including General Creighton W. Abrams and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker) can be used as a Rorschach test, asking the viewer to make a judgment of the members' guilt or innocence...
...general air of unctuous duplicity is an outsider, a Hollywood choreographer brought in to stage the song-and-dance numbers. Appealingly played by real-life Choreographer Michael Kidd, he treats his charges roughly, without cant, but with genuine, humorously phrased care for their welfare. He almost cons the viewer into believing that the film actually has a heart ticking away fitfully some where near its sneer-meter...