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Some moderate Africans and Caribbean envoys tried to disentangle their cause from the anti-Israel clause. "To be born black is to understand what racism means," said Barbados Ambassador Waldo Waldron-Ramsey, who pleaded with the Arabs to withdraw their resolution. Of 36 black African nations, only 16 supported the measure. There were hopes that African support might further dwindle before the General Assembly vote. If not, warned U.S. Delegate Leonard Garment, "the work of the U.N. is in jeopardy...
...real life, Smith is George Jerome Waldo (Jerry) Goodman, novelist and screenwriter (The Wheeler Dealers), former editor of the financial monthly the Institutional Investor, and a man who has enjoyed most of the good things as defined by most of the human race...
Directed by JOHN SCHLESINGER Screenplay by WALDO SALT...
Synthetic Desperation. Schlesinger and Screenwriter Waldo Salt collaborated previously on Midnight Cowboy, and The Day of the Locust has much the same mood of sentimental surrealism. Both films treat rather bizarre subjects in a comfortably slick fashion, so that nothing becomes very real or threatening. All decadence is decorative, all desperation synthetic. The Day of the Locust looks puffy and overdrawn, sounds shrill because it is made with a combination of self-loathing and tenuous moral superiority. This is a movie turned out by the sort of mentality that West was mocking...
...Waldo Pepper is a flamboyant movie, eminently satisfying just as a spectacle. What transforms it into something more is the authenticity that Director Hill, whose avocation is flying antique airplanes, brings to it. He is obviously paying tribute to a spirit of gallantry that he believes in and admires. Fortunately, he has communicated his earnestness to Writer Goldman, whose humor is tempered by uncharacteristic restraint, and to an excellent cast, among whom Bo Brundin as Kessler stands out. As for Redford, this is his best work since Downhill Racer. Appealingly awkward when trying to express his feeling for flying...