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...COLD BLOOD. Richard Brooks has followed Truman Capote's harrowing anatomization of a multiple murder in Kansas with remarkable fidelity, and the performances of the unknown actors who portray the killers (Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock, Robert Blake as Perry Smith) lift the film to near brilliance...
...about a woman, the malice is tangibly thick: "Her heavy amber earrings and amber necklace, her dyed black hair done in earphones so dead and scurfy that one felt that if they were lifted moths would fly out of them, her dreadful arch smile . . ." Are such caricatures intended to portray poor old Britannia? The tone is wrong for a grand historical novel; the sound is not of a foundering vessel but of rats in the stores and cordage...
...Mouths. Throughout history, artists have been content to portray angels as slightly girlish young men in white robes and eagle-sized wings. The tradition does less than justice to some of the more majestic celestial creatures-especially those recorded in Islamic folklore. The Angel of Mohammed, for example, has 70,000 heads, each of which has 70,000 faces, each face having 70,000 mouths, each mouth 70,000 tongues, each tongue capable of speaking 70,000 languages-all the better to praise...
...introduce popular control willy-nilly over every branch of government. But the Vietnam resolution is no attempt to do this; it does not threaten the activities of any Cambridge body. Rather, the resolution is a reasonable attempt to do precisely what the City Council has clearly done clumsily: portray publicly the opinions of the citizens of Cambridge on the war in Vietnam...
...missing from this new novel by the author of Battle Cry and Exodus. The men are a bit on the wooden side, the women and all the subplots largely unbelievable, but once again the West is triumphant-just barely. Unfortunately, for his purposes Uris finds it necessary to portray France's Charles de Gaulle as a fatuous numskull, and though le grand Charles has his share of faults, congenital stupidity is not one of them. Besides, a writer of Uris' commercial talents should think twice before trying to put words in the mouth of one of the master...