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Get Carter is a doggedly nasty piece of business made in blatant but inept imitation of Point Blank. While the violence in Point Blank defines some surreal and chilling points about the savagery of contemporary urban life, the mayhem in Get Carter is a gruesome and almost pornographic visual obsession...
The self as a problem, if not a disease, is at least as old as the Renaissance. One deplores with Anderson that "we have fallen out of love with society on this continent." But it is only another form of self-obsession to put the blame on a three-headed...
Last, it is untrue that I am anti-radical. Where the SDS of 1966 was not radical-that is, in its virtual ignorance of workers as a potential agent of social change-PL's ideological influence on that organization was constructive, as I said in my article. What I object...
On the church's home turf, The Priest's Wife is a minor' variation on a national obsession: the clericalism that many adherents cannot take in a religion they do not want to leave. In the U.S., the film's taste may be suspect, its humor...
Doris Lessing is prepared to assume-as others have before her-that in a world gone mad, those whom the world calls mad may be the only sane ones. What she has forfeited-and the loss has to be enormous for any novelist-is the scale of humanity. To the...