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...mood and the stage for what promises to be a congressional session full of tough, partisan politics and bitter confrontations with the White House. Hoping to help themselves-as well as their presidential candidate, whoever he may be-in the upcoming elections, the Democrats will be out to portray Ford as the great naysayer while they fight for social programs and more jobs. President Ford, on the other hand, will try to depict the Democrats as spendthrifts whose fiscal irresponsibility will increase inflation...
...because rights were not available. Vintage home movies of the animation unit are fun, but Filmmaker Jackson relies too much on the reminiscences of Cartoon Director Bob Clampett to fill in the facts. Clampett pays scant attention to his contemporaries-Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones-and endeavors to portray himself as Looney Tunes' brightest light. The two best cartoons in the show, however, are the work of others...
...recent run of articles on our President's bumbling style [Jan. 5] portray Mr. Ford as a bigger-than-life buffoon. What person has not tripped over his own feet or tied his tongue in knots over a simple statement? Does the nation want God hi the White House...
...screens and sets (Boris Aronson) and costumes (Florence Klotz) transport one hypnotically into the realm of ukiyoe, the "floating world" of the Japanese print. The shape and tone of the show is that of a Kabuki-styled operetta. It is audaciously ambitious and flagrantly pretentious. Pacific Overtures attempts to portray the Westernization of Japan after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's trade mission in 1853. The appearance of Perry's battleship is the evening's showstopper. First the prow with two baleful headlights looms in the dusk. Then, in accordion fashion, the rest...
...this film entirely lacks compassion. The assemblage of mental patients caricatures each one--and each behaves in the manner you'd expect from caricatures of mental illness. One thinks he's Jesus Christ, another can't stand disagreements, another just waltzes and waltzes all day. No attempt to portray the characters in depth is made. The fact that genuine patients are used only raises the degree of exploitation. In no case are we told anything about the possible origins of their psychoses. They are putty to be shaped in McMurphy's hands, and McMurphy is basically out to have...