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...assured driver safety. Drivers feared otherwise -particularly after they learned that Ford intends to put heavier axles on new Torinos and Montegos coming off the assembly line. By the beginning of last week, the Detroit Free Press was denouncing the decision to install only retainer plates as a "corporate cop-out," and Ford dealers had received more than 1,000 complaints and inquiries from customers demanding that the axles be replaced...
...wired for continual stimulation (pages 82 to 84), and references throughout to the ascendancy of the machine. We are treated to a titillating hint of Janet's sex life (Arthur, the owner of "a yellow Ferrari, a lot of dash, and a lot of charm") and a non-stereotyped cop (Will he provide the love interest in the film?) who at one point indignantly announces that he's been to college...
Harvard Cabaret: The stand-up comedy of Al Franken. Loeb west lobby. After the mainstage show (about 10:45), May 4 and May 6. Cop-Out. A satire by John Guare. About 10:45, May 5. Feiffer on Review: skits by Jules Feiffer. About 10:45, May 7. .50 Food minimum...
...French Connection is still the least obnoxious of the three. Its values are only those of a racist, authoritarian cop; it offers no unifying ideology by which to live in its jungle. Straw Dogs and Dirty Harry do offer such a rationale, and it is not a misuse of the word to call this rationale fascism. Pauline Kael called Straw Dogs "a fascist work of art." It is. Its director. Sam Peckinpah uses the actors and the camera to teach his lesson with skill and finesse. The lesson, however, is classic fascism: the quest for the meta-experience of violence...
...DIRTY HARRY is the vilest of the bunch. Unlike the other two, it has no pretensions of art; it is a simply told story of the Nietszchean superman and his sado-masochistic pleasures. The hero is Clint Eastwood, a tough cop who carries a Magnum .44, "the most powerful handgun in the world," and brandishes it at a world which is so cowardly, stupid, and slow as to be beneath contempt. His quarry is a sniggering psychopath, a blank-faced embodiment of evil who personifies all that the American tough mentality despises: long-haired, pacifistic, whiny, effeminate. Harry tracks...