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Other clients followed quickly, and College Marketing's representatives on 700 campuses now push credit cards for Sun Oil, Gulf, Standard of Indiana and Trans World Airlines. The company has done marketing polls for Miles Laboratories, Schlitz and Levi Strauss. For Hamm's beer, Vittert displayed a flair for corny but attention-getting promotion. His firm designed a fraternity-house poster that shows a seminude girl balancing a can of beer on her bottom. The headline: THE MAN'S CAN YEAR ROUND. Last May, College Marketing closed the books on its first year with a profit...
...PETER STRAUSS...
Together, the two look completely out of place, utterly bewildered in their environment. We accept them neither as actors nor as nineteenth-century Westerners. Instead, they turn the conventions of the Western into a series of burlesque gags. Candice spends half her time trying to seduce the virginal Strauss-she delightedly rips off piece after piece of her disintegrating dress before eventually changing into a Raquel Welch 2000 Years B.C. wash cloth-only to resist the eager lad when he finally gets it up by demurring with a sincere, "Honus, tell me, do you really mean it?" Hell, lady...
...risk irrelevance, and so, in its last reel, Soldier Blue goes liberal on us. Candice and her friend eventually make it to the fort, where everyone is poised to attack the Cheyenne village where Candice had been holing up for the past two years. Both Bergen and Strauss are incapable of halting the madness. The film turns into a bloodbath as a crazy, half-drunken major directs the inevitable massacre. Not only do his men slaughter the village chief when he approaches them with an American flag and treaty papers, but they also rape every woman and dismember every child...
...society. Why not concern ourselves with their reality? Why not a documentary on the appalling conditions found on government reservations? Or better yet, a film about the growing numbers of young Indian militants, like those that have taken over Alcatraz? Why must we settle for Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss...