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Last week's bad weather compelled the flyers to take even more risks than usual. Fighter-bombers had to slice below the overcast to "unload their ordnance" at heights of only 500 ft. or so. At that low altitude even a rifle bullet can bring down a jet if it strikes a vulnerable point...
...same time, the film doesn't go to the historical roots of the Mafia. It does, in fact, try to justify the group's existence by condemning corrupt national enterprise in general. Though this isn't crucial to the film's success as dramatic narrative or slice-of-life, it leaves a gaping rent in the generally tough fabric, through which we can see the soft heart of the financiers or the heavy thumbs of Mafia carabinieri who helped supervise the shooting of some scenes...
...there may be millions of Americans, including a good many Floridians, who share none of Wallace's residual racism but do keenly feel the sense of alienation from the system that his little-man populism plays to. That note was sounded by George McGovern: "No matter how we slice it, today was a setback for those who believe deeply in the cause of human rights. But I cannot accept the fact that the 40% of the vote that went to George Wallace was a racist vote. Many people voted for Wallace to register their protest against the way things...
...frothing mad at any white (playwright or not) who said some of the things that he says about blacks. He disowns the Lincoln Center production of The Duplex as a "coon show," though nothing in the script indicates that the spirit of the play has been violated. As a slice-of-life playwright, Bullins carves out zesty evocations of drunken parties, card-playing cronies, the sudden sensual thrust and parry of the sexes. When he can carve out the palpitating hearts of blacks who epitomize and yet transcend blackness, he will have written the play he is so promisingly aiming...
...told. So, where is the raunchiness of yesteryear? This year's show, The Wrongway Inn by name and the Pudding's 124th production, may be set in a whorehouse on the eve of the Revolutionary War but deep down inside it's as red, white and blue as a slice of American...