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Dismissive of those who have questioned America's aggressive annexation of the Southwest, he argues that opponents of annexation were dupes of Britain.
Bosworth, the biographer of Diane Arbus and Montgomery Clift, "provides a vivid sense of upper-middle-class life in the early Cold War years, when prominent citizens suddenly turned their backs on colleagues such as Crum and called them Communist dupes," writes Kathy Deacon in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Lingeman says Bosworth "tells her elegiac story in a tone that is admirably restrained, in prose that conveys strong feeling by understatement."
The journalists were all dupes, so were the lefties; this is a picture of the antiwar movement similar to the protestors' mental picture of Johnson, McNamara, and Rostow.
The question (not burning, perhaps--except for the poor dupes who suffered through the charmless Phantom because the Times recommended it) is how Maslin comes by this generosity.
Watching dupes year after year, measuring prints with calipers, subjecting the movie to "vector analysis" and performing their own stopwatch experiments, these critics (including several academics) have discovered the film is not merely evidence of conspiracy but is also a part of the plot.