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...Brando cannot connect the different sides of him which his director has simply caught, not structured. Bertolucci is too busy using facile Freudianisms to account for Paul's aggression and Jeanne's passivity, or emphasizing yet another in a long chain of random perversities (like Mother's loves for Father's boots). He does throw in a welcome parody of Godard and his films, all hollow Hollywood-loving childishness, abetted by the eternally adolescent actor Jean-Pierre Leaud. But even its welcome is soon worn out. And the last tango itself is pathetic: painted Fellini faces contort, and toothpick bodies...
...first American advisers were killed, 3½ years before the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and four years before the Marines landed at Danang. So it seemed altogether fitting that the end of the American involvement in the Viet Nam War-March 30, 1973-should also fall on a rather random day: 35 days after the last American battlefield casualty, and before an end to the bombing in Indochina (now over Cambodia), to the financial aid, or to the substantial civilian presence...
...pages. Random House...
Steven Zygerberger (Sam MacGintis) has already drawn up plans to foil Tunlop's dastardly decision. Together with Howard Zinn (Sam MacGintis) and Elmo Zumwalt (Sam MacGintis), Zygerberger hypnotizes all Bostonians whose names begin with letters A through D. After inducing amnesia, he threatens to rename them at random unless Arnold and Michael Applethrope (John Tunlop) promise to leave the country. Tunlop, as Arnold, suggests binding arbitration...
...RAPE OF THE TAXPAYER by PHILIP M. STERN 483 pages. Random House...