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...epidemic of venereal disease, where destructive protest has been honored as righteous dissent, where the killing of unborn babies is thought a small price to pay for the pleasure of sex, where the purpose of law is forgotten and the letter of the law is worshiped like a plastic god, where tradition's moral sense is spat upon-in such an atmosphere, can you truly expect a bone-weary citizenry to become indignant about still another Watergate? A.J. VENGLARCIK Struthers, Ohio...
...near future, when pollution is so thick that skywriters engrave their words with hammer and chisel. Population is so dense that the authorities sponsor a killathon, in which patriotic citizens dispatch themselves in diverse ways. The last California redwood has been replaced by a plastic memorial. Prize dogs compete not for ribbons, but for virgin asphalt on which to relieve themselves...
...affair between two upper-middle-class eccentrics, Petulia makes audiences uncomfortable because both parties are messed up, and can't come together in a way which would help them grow. It also aroused the more chauvinistic American critics because of its depiction of the stultifying side of plastic American life (even in San Francisco where most of the film takes place). Lester's editing experiments, meant to underline character reactions, don't always work; but he has a fine performance by George C. Scott to cover...
...long time, and her people come across as flat and flimsy (one questions, analytical cliche though it may be, if her parents were ever young themselves), it is because she presents her story as a kind of Kafkaesque report. This report is compiled by Dr. Berners a Swiss-born plastic surgeon in search of his drop-out son, to "us," the audience outside his mental amphitheater, where he performs imaginary operations on various members of the human race. Apart from his obsessive need to "reexamine all human action as animal" for his audience. Berners is attempting to justify himself before...
...EARLIER SEARCH for salvation, Berners switched from doing cosmetic plastic surgery on the rich to performing curative surgery on the poor for what he thinks is his son's sake. But their hareditary diseases, bred of poverty and neglect, remind him of the alleged physical force contaminating the younger generation. When he then looks for spiritual salvation, however, he cannot avoid the concrete realities surrounding him in city streets and hospital corridors. Bends of bearded youths and have krishna dancers with the faces of cheerleaders allow him to toy with the idea of a Second Coming...