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Alan's final, crazed musings, spoken at a time when he is an official Xixi tribesman, are about art, music, culture, myth and their relationship to the Xixi, and the quiche at Chez Jean. His experiences in the Qatab jungles have changed him and skewed his thinking, but he is...
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Pauline Kael once asked whether Frank Capra had an honest bone in his body. Even hearing the question is a crusher, for if Capra is a calculating manipulator, then who is left? To be sure, he was sly behind the camera: Graham Greene wrote that...
THE WEAKNESS in this movie is that irony runs quite a bit thicker than plot and suspense. Once the machinery of the "Special Section" goes into motion--and this is fairly early on--the rest of the film is straightforward exposition. In an atmosphere heavy with injustice and guilt, six...
Rejected Suggestions. While preparing his State of the Union message, Ford asked Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, who runs the White House's Domestic Council, to develop some new programs. Rockefeller and his staff, headed by Director James Cannon, conducted hearings in six cities and compiled 12,000 pages of...
The warehouse is panelled with books, books, and more books! There are forty feet of Welch's famous tome The Politician, which accused Dwight Eisenhower of being a "conscious and willing agent of the Communist Conspiracy." There are fifty feet of the distilled essence of conspiracy, None Dare Call It...