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...neither Good nor Summerlin is the true villain of the piece. That role is played by the Catch-22 strategies of modern medical research. Federal grants, which guarantee jobs and prestige, are in decreasing supply. Where cancer is concerned, money tends to go to experimenters with positive track records. As The Patchwork Mouse illustrates, such lopsided philanthropy leads not only to personal tragedy but scandalous science. The dangers of a system fueled by anxiety and dependent on immediate success cannot be exaggerated. The Summerlin affair was only the handwriting; Hixson is worried about the wall itself...
...hedonistic self-interest could be bought off. There was enough surplus wealth created by the economic system that capitalists could enjoy dividends and workers pay raises; similarly, "special interests," like farmers and government workers, could have subsidies and increasing absolute shares of national income. In this way, hedonism, the villain of Bell's analysis, was defused as a political danger and displaced into the harmless arena of culture, which it has dominated since the late 19th century. The anti-capitalism of American avant-garde artists, writers, intellectuals and even Greenwich Village is a result of the individual's refusal...
...contains one of Hitchcock's most amazing technical achievements, shooting a plane crash into the ocean from the inside, and one of his best plot clues, involving counter-clockwise windmills. One is again reminded, in this film, of Hitchcock's theory that the best way to make a screen villain memorably terrifying is to make him likeable, and the wonderful British actor Herbert Marshall is, in Foreign Correspondent perhaps the most likeable of all Hitchcock's malfeasants...
Imprisonment traps the prostitute further by forcing her to be dependent on her pimp for protection and bail money. Once she is released, a permanent police record will prevent her from finding a "legitimate" job--thus forcing her back to the red-light district. The so-called "villain" is thus a victim--of pimps and policemen, graft and payoffs, unpunished clients and selectively-enforced laws--not to mention society's censure. Not only does the criminalization of prostitution destroy a hooker's respect for herself; it also erodes respect for the law and for the hypocritical law-enforcing...
...HERE'S ALSO a Czechoslovakian film about the abduction of a harpist, in which hero and villain tangle, and justice prevails satisfactorily against a stark, nightmarish background. In "Euphoria," Peter Max poster colors vie with Matisse-like cutouts in a sort of Lucy-In-The-Sky jazz visual. A Japanese short which follows uses dolls to narrate a Japanese folktale about two hunters who sever the arm of a demon while hunting, and return home only to find their ancient mother bleeding to death in demonic anguish, with a missing...