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Obsession with vulgarity and physical decay? Look around. The bookstores, the grind houses. That's not even sex, it's cold cuts. And the shlock stores are shlockier. I saw a brass statue of a guy rolling a stone up a hill. Underneath it was a label: "That...
The real stars of Dirty Harry are the special effects and make-up men. Without their genius, Siegel would have been unable to send off his audience furtively checking the roof-tops. The film's proportions are so mythic, one expects to shake off the horror. Not so, For three...
In Without Marx or Jesus, a Succes de scandale in France and a best seller stateside, Jean-Francois Revel proposes that America owns an exclusive option on the Age of Aquarius. But his flaccid prose, chaotic presentation, and unsupported generalizations fail to convince me. After rejecting the idea of America...
Both these remarkable efforts wouldn't exist except for the original inspiration of Moliere's play. School for Wives was written three hundred years ago, and, contrary to what we might expect, it has little to say about women's liberation or any other contemporary concerns. Of course there are...
Who owns America? Hickel says that Americans do, but they do not realize it. They must cultivate a feeling of ownership for every public property, whether it be a city park, the Potomac River or the Grand Tetons. The problem is the feeling that anything that belongs to everyone belongs...