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...point: their outrage at the Government's handling of the chemical-pollution scare. Said 30-year Resident Evelyn Zufall: "They should have known more before they came to us and disrupted our lives." The townsfolk seem dubious about Government promises. Said Leonard Massey, organizer of an auction to raise funds for residents: "Do it yourself. Don't let the Government...
...psychiatrist. His Dr. Rice is not the self-assured Freudian father figure who sits comfortably back in his chair, doodling on a pad of paper. Instead, Scheider often seems just as unsure of himself as any patient. In one sequence, Rice steals Brooke's keys and sneaks through the auction house where she works, in an attempt to search her desk for evidence. Suddenly, he stops and says aloud. "This is dumb." The abruptness of the self-deprecating remark underscores his ambivalent feelings: While Dr. Rice the shrink recognizes an element of the ridiculous in his decision to play detective...
...CAMERA STALKS Scheider as he makes his way through the artifacts of the auction house--as if does throughout most of the film. But unlike in more conventional thrillers, this technique is not intended to identify the camera's eye with the murderer's. It represents instead Rice's own attempts to follow his instincts, to rediscover his identity. The sequence pulsates with a natural suspense not found in many film thrillers. The audience doesn't expect to see the killer burst through the door, as might happen in a more contrived film, but Rice's personal tension and psychological...
...desperate cost-cutting struggle to survive, Wurlitzer has reduced its production schedule, and one of its three remaining U.S. plants has been put on the auction block. Since March the firm has closed half its 42 company-owned retail outlets around the country, and it is seeking to sell or close the remaining ones. In addition, the firm's worldwide work force has been slashed by more than 20%, to about...
...like to have time to think about that," Denes says. One idea she favors is to turn her wheat into bread and distribute it to the poor. She has also received some 30 other suggestions, among them proposals to send the wheat to a needy country like Cambodia or auction it off at the New York Stock Exchange, just down the street...