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...macabre sort of way, they are both very funny. Trash, the first Andy Warhol factory film to be distributed commercially nationwide, is the story of a heroin addict (Joe Dallesandro) who is constantly on the verge of O. D.-ing. Perhaps this does not seem humorous in itself, but, for good measure, there is a running gag about Joe's smack-induced impotency. Paul Morrissey (who wrote, directed and photographed this epic) has structured his film around the gag; Trash is a series of boy-meets-girl-but-can't-get-it-up episodes, each one weirder than the next...
...government officials now realize that U. S. involvement in Vietnam has failed to yield any simple strategy that might cope with insurgent movements elsewhere in the Third World. That is perhaps more significant than the failure to produce victory; for, above all else. Vietnam evolved as an "experiment," a sort of testing ground where the U. S. military could first apply its new weapons and strategies to the ugly business of counterinsurgency warfare. While not losing sight of their concrete aim-complete and permanent U. S. domination of Southeast Asia-American leaders have been acutely aware...
...This sort of feeling has given rise to a special variation of the intricate signal that black soldiers in Viet Nam exchange when they meet. The standard greeting includes two taps on the chest -meaning "I will die for you." In Soul Alley, some blacks add a swift downward motion of the hand-a stroke to kill...
...consider themselves primarily artists, to illustrate a philosophical Zen concept; 2) it had to be done with maximum spontaneity. In Zen, as opposed to the controlled symmetries of scholarly painting, the inky brush spatters and runs on the paper in a kind of ecstatic exuberance-a sort of Oriental forerunner of action painting. The essence of Zen thought is satori -sudden enlightenment. It comes unpredictably; meditation prepares the artist, but guarantees nothing. One ancient monk, Yun-Men, achieved satori when his teacher slammed a door on his foot. Another, Wen-Shu Ssu-yeh, had it while butchering...
...news sources but merely acting as a conduit for expression of Rockefeller's eleemosynary impulses. As to the advantages of such an arrangement over an outright gift, we cannot, and did not, do more than merely suggest one possibility. Jennings said to the CRIMSON reporter, "You guys do this sort of thing...