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...Torn between Freud and Marx, Fanon flung himself into the opening phase of the Algerian revolution and became one of the FLN's chief pamphleteers and theorists. He fell sick, journeyed to Moscow for a cure, but was eventually told by Soviet specialists that the only hope for his leukemia lay in Washington, D.C. In the National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Md., weeks before he died in 1961 at age 36, he received the first copies of his last and most revolutionary book, The Wretched of the Earth. The FLN had his body flown to Tunis...
...entrance of the morning sun into the room is as quet as painless death. She kneels. Each morning upon rising she kneels where she can see the cross above her small bed, and the thin stream of sunlight through the ugly torn shade. These morning prayers are different from her prayers before retiring, the light is different. At night pale neon flickers into the room and illuminates the Ghost...
...Coach Harrison is "the next problem which must be eliminated." I have but one reservation in this regard and it concerns the degree of responsibility. Due to his strong belief in the incompatibility theory, Bozek necessarily views Harrison's incompetence as only a part of the problem which has torn Harvard basketball dreams asunder. However, Mr. Harrison is in fact the whole problem which has and is continuing to prevent the Harvard basketball experiment from reaching fruition...
PAYDAY chronicles 36 hours in the life of a minor country-and-western singer called Maury Dann, a sort of Orpheus pretending who boozes, wenches pops pills and passes along the old payola. As played and sung by Rip Torn -eyes bulging, teeth bared until they look like a couple of upended harmonicas-he seems less gifted in music than m hog calling. Like A Face in the Crowd, Payday tries hard to be about the spiritual bankruptcy of American life, but Director Daryl Duke emulates only the hysteria, not the theatrical fervor, of the 1957 Kazan film. The wretched...
Last fall, in ABC's award-winning TV movie That Certain Summer, a divorced father was forced to explain his homosexuality to his shocked son. In the same week, NBC's The Bold Ones dealt explicitly with a young girl who was torn between her old boy friend and her new-found lesbian lover. ABC's Lawyer Owen Marshall put a girl on the witness stand in order to clear her of a charge of lesbianism. "It may just be for rating purposes," says Welby Producer David O'Connell, "but many producers feel homosexuality...