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Bartel, making his feature debut, exhibits a great deal of somewhat perverse and not necessarily admirable skill. Private Parts tends to be short on horror and long on kinky grue, like a gross animated cartoon. Its most outrageous scene is one between a lovesick voyeur and an inflatable plastic dummy. The distributors, MGM, are keeping quiet about Private Parts. One can appreciate their apprehension...
...cynic, if not from some sycophant claquer of the Agnew stripe. Whoever thought it up fails to realize that so high an honor could have its seamy side, too. Mr. Nixon would find himself in a cheerless company along with men of thought, science, literature, above all, integrity, where plastic "sincerities" and windy rhetoric are not properly appreciated. He would be out of his element...
THERE is a man in this South Jersey farmhouse. He is more remembered than real, his presence captured in random memorabilia-a plastic model of his F-105 fighter plane poised on a living-room shelf, a duffel bag of uniforms at the top of the stairs, a portrait by his wife hung in their bedroom. There are less direct reminders too: a grease-splattered map of Viet Nam on a kitchen wall; a dog-eared volume of an encyclopedia spread open on a table-the subject is Viet...
...hurry-and-then-wait routine of military processing. The soldiers must have their urine analyzed, their baggage searched by M.P.s and sniffed by dope-attuned dogs, and their bodies frisked before they are finally herded into Waiting Room A or Waiting Room B. There they sit restlessly on orange plastic chairs, staring at travel posters, talking little, some playing hearts, gin rummy or chess until flight time is finally announced...
...everyday life. The style is lively and talkative, despite a vocabulary drawn from Marx, Sartre and the structuralists. The subjects covered by the short essays making up most of the volume are fascinating and immediate: professional wrestling, Garbo's face, soap powders and detergents, ornamental cookery, strip-tease, plastic...