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Attica mourned its dead amidst undercurrents of anger and fear. The prison?the community's largest employer?had suddenly become not a source of income but of anguish, the focus of events beyond understanding and beyond control. Now police, reporters from large cities and assorted strangers poked around and asked questions, spreading rumors, raising new fears before the old ones had subsided. "We've been told to expect more trouble," explained Warren Peck, the local barber. "We don't want reprisals taken here," said a man near by. "But if they come in from Buffalo and start trouble, I think...
...Michael Gothard most prominent among them) act like a chorus and look like creatures from a Bosch triptych. Oliver Reed is suitably forceful as Grandier; it is indeed his best performance. Vanessa Redgrave, a consummate actress, is fine as Sister Jeanne, except that she tends to get lost amidst all the sound and fury...
...acre wooded site in Fairfield, Conn., 55 miles from the horrendous traffic congestion and frazzled nerves that characterize life in Manhattan. The offices, to be completed in 1974, will serve as a sort of corporate think tank, where G.E.'s long-range planners can cogitate amidst chirping birds and croaking frogs...
...eight days in early March, a Harvard-owned building-the Architectural Technology Workshop at 888 Memorial Drive-was held by about 100 militant women as a "Liberated Women's Center." Amidst rumors and threats of an imminent bust by police, the building was finally vacated March...
Polities-despite the objective social conditions that intrude occasionally into the book-becomes merely another arena in which Rosen searches for the unconscious, authentic act. But when the Revolution comes-in a keystone Cops version of last spring's trashings-Rosen can only sit amidst the swirling gases, arguing with his friends, debating his proper response, and, finally, dreaming of vomiting on Nixon...