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...Having made some valid points about the indignity of being considered only sexual objects, a few of the feminists have unfortunately gone on to exaggerate the proposition. They now claim that women are almost universally victims of rape. Never since the Sabine women were put upon by the Romans has there been as much furor about this crime as in the past year or so. This outcry has less to do with violence in American cities than with the radicals' all-embracing definition of the offense. Last April, they organized an all-day "rape workshop" in Manhattan, where they...
...Gang Rape. The inerrancy doctrine is at the heart of the present strife. Preus and many other conservatives take the fundamentalist view, which holds that such biblical passages as the Adam and Eve account and even Jonah's journey inside the whale are historically true. For most moderates, however, inerrancy means rather that major doctrines, such as original sin, are divinely inspired truth, while specific stories like that of Adam and Eve or Jonah could be just illustrations of a larger truth...
...fallibility and insect adaptability, The Hellstrom Chronicle seems just a little too facile. The pseudo-documentary framework of the film becomes rickety in places, as Hellstrom (Lawrence Pressman) intones a narration more inflated than informative ("The world was created not with the sweetness of love but the violence of rape"). It is rather as a visual experience that the film succeeds so supremely well...
Rehabilitation. There is less consensus about the role of the victim in rape cases. Some victimologists contend that rape victims invite attack. But Amir believes that fewer than 20% of rapes are precipitated by the woman's being "negligent or reckless or seductive." Philadelphia Psychiatrist Joseph Peters also thinks that the victim of sexual assault is less often at fault than is generally believed. To resolve the controversy, he and his colleagues have just begun a study that calls for exhaustive interviewing of every Philadelphia rape victim over the next four years...
Nicholson manages a few nice touches. A scene of attempted rape late in the film conveys just the right feeling of psychotic tension. There is also a funny, if by now familiar, freak-out at the draft board and a shrewd performance by Bruce Dern as the basketball coach. Nicholson is not so fortunate with the other actors. Michael Margotta is scruffy and strident as the radical, William Tepper adenoidal in the role of the basketball player. Karen Black, playing the faculty wife, offers only a dreary variation on her basic Five Easy Pieces performance. It should be pointed...