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KUBRICK, however, removes the ambivalence of the Burgess viewpoint, and weights all material on Alex's side. The people whom the gang beat up are ugly or ridiculous--they spout cant about the lack of law and order or assume mere postures of fear. Alex still gets to screw two teen-age girls, but here he doesn't first get them drunk or shoot them up with horse. Kubrick makes his representatives of the state not only bland, but sexually randy. Most important for audience emotion-letting: out of all the victims seen, only Alex suffers. Kubrick has, in general...
...work of any kind other than a few poems or short stories eulogizing Mao had been published in China for nearly five years. Operas, films and drama are all propaganda pieces of socialist realism. Life in China may be stable and secure-but it is also, from a Western viewpoint, almost unbearably confined and boring...
...television "technicians" on the list, twelve are actually news executives from the three major networks. It seemed questionable that one vice president or executive producer was needed to supervise the work of each of the twelve network correspondents. It may also be that from the White House viewpoint, the historic journey will provide far more sight and sound than substance. Ziegler told UPl's Helen Thomas: "After all, it is a picture story...
Your President has noted five power centers [the U.S., Russia, China, Japan and the European Common Market]. We do not entirely agree. From the viewpoint of economic development there is such a trend, but from the viewpoint of the world's movements of popular liberation-which hold the key to the future-all nations regardless of size and all races regardless of color should be equal. Governments find it difficult to agree. For the people, it is easier to achieve a common outlook. We look to the people...
Caution, confusion and cynicism are perfectly natural from the businessmen's viewpoint. They have too often been disappointed by premature forecasts of prosperity by Washington's erstwhile prophets of boom. "I'm prepared to be optimistic, but I think there is a significant credibility gap between the economic forecasts and reality," says Colt Industries President David Margolis...