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...SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of the antidraft riots that destroyed whole sections of Manhattan during the Civil...
...that while it requires only a grainy black-and-white script, they give it a glossy, Technicolor treatment. Every irony is underlined, every climax hammered home, every scene overstuffed with authentic touches from their well-stocked notebooks. The result, paradoxically, is that their finished product is rarely as vivid and compelling as their raw material must have been...
...Passion. For centuries, village priests have used instructional dolls to teach children Bible stories, and Girard's collector's eye spotted one particularly vivid scene: a depiction of bearded Noah and Mrs. Noah presiding over an ark of candy-colored animals. Villagers labor for months to produce a panoramic Nativity scene for display during the Christmas season. Girard has assembled 200 Mexican figures which would originally have served as background in Nativity scenes, into one tableau. It portrays the busy market that thrives in any village on a fiesta day. To add a contemporary note, he even introduced...
...think we're a violent nation now, just wait until our young children grow up. My childhood was neuter dolls, chutes and ladders, and Little Lulu. Today's childhood is erotic dolls, authentic replicas of war guns (complete with vivid sounds) and a Saturday morning TV listing with enough sadism and murder to give even the most hardened criminal ideas...
...Scenes. Where has Hollywood's sudden vivid interest in homosexuality come from? "It comes from what's happening all around,'' suggests Director John Schlesinger, whose new film, Midnight Cowboys is about a male prostitute. "Everybody does more or less what he wants to these days, and no one says anything about it. Films are a reflection of that attitude, and homosexuality is just one part of the whole scene...