Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shot in color that may have been invented by Madame Tussaud and edited with a cleaver, The Villain is acceptable only as a glimpse of procedural tradition, the English bloodhound pursuing his accursed foe. Villain Burton's voice remains one of the most distinctive and controlled in the world. But he is no longer in charge of his face. The little piggy eyes glisten and swivel in a seamed and immobile background. Dissipation, alas, now seems less a simulacrum than a portrait...
...Dark Night of Resistance puts it all together. Tapped out on 18 different typewriters, the manuscript comprises, in Berrigan's own phrase, "notes quite literally on the run." Included are scraps of poetry and prose; imaginary dialogues between Disciple and Master, reading notes on Eldridge Cleaver, a commentary on Buddha, a critique...
...When I got to Paris, I discovered all the people with money were in Cannes, so here I am," said Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver's wife Kathleen, when she turned up at the Cannes Film Festival with a bodyguard of women in Afros and men in cowboy clothes. "The pigs do not know I am here," she told a press conference held in a bar, adding that she had emerged from the Cleavers' sanctuary in Algeria "to raise money for the establishment of a Revolutionary Peoples Communication Network" designed to "lead to the overthrow of white capitalism...
...national liberation fronts" and assorted movements maintain offices or representatives in Algiers, which has won the reputation of being the "home of revolutionaries." These groups include Al-Fatah, the Viet Cong, the Angolan resistance movement (M.P.L.A.) and the Black Panthers, whose local office is presided over by Eldridge Cleaver. There is even a representative for a group known as the Movement for the Autodetermination and Independence of the Canary Islands, which have belonged to Spain since the 15th century. "Catholics go to Rome," remarked an Algerian official, "Moslems to Mecca, and revolutionaries come to Algiers...
...future may be the next word from Algiers; Eldridge Cleaver fired the first round but he hasn't had much to say since...