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...adventure story, Dark of the Sun is a workmanlike display worthy of a Ph.D. in demolition warfare. As a vignette of the Simba rebellion, which it purports to be, it is arrant nonsense. The Congolese national army, which it depicts as heroic, was in fact undisciplined and corrupt. The Simba rebels, portrayed as raping terrorists, were in fact relatively disciplined. Held in thrall by a powerful black dawa (magic), the Simbas were forbidden to steal from the whites or even lay hands on a white woman-whose touch, they believed, was evil...
...analogies so complex and yet, at moments, instantly and strikingly identifiable, that it fleshes out the political fact. The turbulence of war, the patterns of black-white intimacies, the historically right setting, all these are fit ingredients for such a story. And finally, most important, the touches of unstammering, heroic rhetoric to scald the benches into the grip of the ultimate social and political meanings...
Campus Leaders. What has made the difference? Some highly publicized interracial marriages have helped pave the way. The civil rights movement has recast the Negro in a heroic image. As one university counselor put it, with a measure of euphoria : "Discrimination is out of vogue. Black is no longer a color-it's a choice." It is easy to exaggerate the picture. Mixed dating is still practiced only by a small minority of the student population, and by no means on all campuses (though it is generally accepted at the biggest ones). It is virtually out in the South...
...film is based on a book of the same name, which is a curious anti-war document. Robin Moore wrote it purporting to show what a big job the heroic Green Berets were doing in Vietnam. At the time of his writing the government was falsely insisting we had only 12,000 technical advisors in Vietnam. In the book, Green Berets lead patrols, scorn their corrupt Vietnamese allies, torture prisoners as the first step in interrogation, chase the enemy across the border into Laos, and even parachute an exclusively American special mission into North Vietnam--acts all that have denied...
...from her fellow critics. Movies are no peripheral affair for her but the most interesting fact of her life. "They move so fast into the bloodstream," she says. For this reason, she does not lightly suffer actors who give less than their all. "He seems more eccentric than heroic," she wrote of Marlon Brando's performance in Mutiny on the Bounty. "He's like a short, flabby tenor wandering around the stage and not singing; you wonder what he's doing there." She described Dirk Bogarde in Accident: "He aches all the time all over, like an all-purpose sufferer...