Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jail. There some 400 black protesters were crowded into cells designed to confine only half that number. "It was hot. Those blacks were hanging on, suffocating, passing out. I began crying. It threw me into a whole new psychic pattern. It became a commitment for life." He also became adept at a kind of psychological warfare with the dominant whites. He discovered that when black demonstrators broke into the national anthem, puzzled cops stopped and took oft their hats; when blacks knelt in prayer, no one attacked them...
Policemen in upcoming years will have to be increasingly adept at adjusting rapidly to changing social values and standards. And they will have to be more diplomatic. "There are some policemen today." Powers explained, "who will see a group of kids congregating on a street corner, and will go up to them and say 'Get the fuck off the cornerl'All this does is destroy any rapport the police might have with these kids, and in areas like that around Harvard Square, it would be disastrous. Others would be gentle, but firm, with the kids. Through education and training programs...
...screenplay, by Jorge Semprum and Costa-Garvas, is taut and suspenseful. Raoul Coutard's photography cannot be faulted and is particularly adept in its use of cold steel-like colors to add to the cauchemar feeling of the film. Costa-Garvas' direction is lickety-split and sometimes brilliant (his groupings of the pacifist heroes to show simultane-ously their solidarity, strength and fear; the demonstration scenes, which accomplish effortlessly what Haskell Wexler wasted a whole film on in Medium Cool...