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STILL OF THE NIGHT Directed and Written by Robert Benton...
...word, if you please) to the Old Master's late high style. The stars, Roy Scheider and Meryl Streep, are pleasing people; Nestor Almendros' carefully burnished cinematography imparts to Manhattan's streets a theatrically menacing glow that subtly transforms and romanticizes their mean reality. Writer-Director Benton, working from a story he and his onetime partner David Newman concocted a decade ago, proves to be a generally apt and tasteful student of Hitch's mature surface manner. Why, then, is Still of the Night such an irritating and unsatisfying film...
...Avery a neglected painter, but he did work against neglected painter, but he did work against the grain. In the '30s and '40s his Matissean aesthetic and his refusal to paint "social" subjects, whether of the left, like Ben Shahn, or of the right, like Thomas Hart Benton, made him an outsider in the art world; no small irony, since this son of a New York State country tanner struggled his whole life against pauperism. Later he would be considered rather a fuddy-duddy compared with the abstract expressionists, a generation behind him. He was, in that...
...states do not seem to have prosecuted in the same case, in part no doubt to avoid the extra work load. In the Heath case, however, Becky's father wanted to see his daughter's killers get the death penalty, and he urged the second prosecution. William Benton, the district attorney in Phenix City, had his own reasons. "A state has a responsibility to protect its citizens," he says. "The fact that someone else did what they thought was right in their area doesn't preclude us from doing what we think is right about something that...
...Benton Harbor, Mich., the Whirlpool Corp. uses a staff of telephone-trained technicians to field questions from customers around the country about problems with its line of home appliances. In Fort Washington, Pa., the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. employs a battery of researchers to handle 800-number telephone queries from parents on a variety of child health-care matters. In Hawthorne, Calif., the Mattel toy company maintains a staff of telephone representatives to advise customers on the operation of the company's toys.and electronic games. In Whippany, N.J., Channel Home Centers, a 91-store hardware chain, offers home repair...