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...kilt somebody; that's how far gone I am. It bothers me that there are about 30 guys in prison now who threatened the Pres & we never heard a thing about 'em. Maybe what they need is organization. How about a "Make the First Lady a Widow, Inc." or "Chicken in Every Pot and Bullet in Every Head...
Died. Aline Saarinen, 58, art critic, newswoman and widow of Architect Eero Saarinen; from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. A former managing editor of Art News, Saarinen began her television career eight years ago as a correspondent on NBC's Today show. Handsome and gay, acerbic and outspoken, she was a refreshing commentator on a wide range of subjects on her own TV talk show, For Women Only, before NBC sent her to Paris in 1971 as the first woman bureau chief in television history...
This biography of Malcolm X, the implacable crusader for black dignity, is presented under the auspices of Warner Bros. The prominently billed participation of Malcolm's widow, Betty Shabazz, is reassuring, but for Warner Bros, to make a documentary about Malcolm X seems about as likely as for the D.A.R. to sponsor the Peking Ballet. That the film should come from such a source is the first surprise. The second is that it is good-a fair forum for Malcolm's fundamental ideas and an exceptional visual chronicle of how those ideas took shape...
...several charming touristy scenes that look as if they were taken from his widow's home movies, we are shown Malcolm on his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, a trip that would cause him to revise his feelings about separatism and the supposed inherent evil of white people. Now Malcolm, having entirely broken with Elijah, maintained that "there are only good and bad human beings." Soon after, at age 39, he would die in a Harlem mosque, the victim of assassination...
...idea that inanimate artifacts may become a medium for energies of the past, and that in this way events and passions recur and prevail through time, is the key to a similar story, Juan Murana. The frail and senile widow of a famed bandit resurrects her "husband", in the form of his knife, to wreak vengence on an unjust landlord...