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...tragi-triptych fortunately leaned on a combination of honest grappling and pure stagecraft, give or take a few lapses. Douglas was by turns crusty and touching as the rebellious old man who refuses to settle down as a withering weed. When a thoroughly resigned oldster (Shirley Booth) gurgles, "You've given me so much," Douglas rasps back, "Anger, I hope." All the same, many aged Americans could well envy Douglas' solution: he merely packs up and goes back to his own house...
...word, not a grunt, not a bellow nor a sigh; not a hiccough, not wail, not a curse, nor a cry. Not a hint, in fact, that the killer weed had been smelled uptown that day. If art is, in fact, anything you can get away with, then the Diggers have indeed added a whole freaky new dimension to the concept of Revolution...
...than its neat, ingenious melo-drama counterparts. Only Jewison isn't content with naturalism either; his detective relies excessively on a rather implausible knowledge of orchids, pules equally obscure and unlikely reservoirs of genius. Perhaps the most extreme example in this regard is the moment when Poitier snatches a weed off the accelerator of the victim's car and, a knowing smile on his face, says "Osmunda, a fern root," Which is all very well and good in a Shamrock Holmes story...
...urchins on the back for having the grand old guts to get off the treadmill, to stand up against hypocrisy and immortality. And it is all very strange to see that at the root of the civil disobedience, and at the root of the test cases, is a lousy weed...
Even the most black-thumbed city slicker could hardly fail to grow a bumper harvest of marijuana. The hal lucinogenic weed - which grows wild throughout America in every kind of soil - requires no plowing, fertilizing, harrowing, mulching, weeding, spraying or watering. To raise a crop of dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven...