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...really wowed me with the whammy you whacked on The Exorcist [Jan. 14]. What the devil got into you? For those who appreciated the film as a brutal but brilliant portrayal of the power of faith in God, I say a hex on you, Jay Cocks...
Mean Streets. Audiences reacted violently to Mean Streets, justly so, because this brutal screeching vision of streetcorner life in Little Italy is as hard to ignore as a fire in the theater. Certaily this semi-biographical film is daring enough-Martin Scorsese toys with improvisational acting, extremely stylized directing and a dialogue built around an idiom of cliches, and so laid himself open to charges of amateurishness. But there is nothing naive about the feeling for conditioned response and social context in the characterizations here. Scorsese, Robert de Niro and others give the streets a searing energy...
...National Liberation Front welcomed the return of peace to Vietnam, for it expected that the end of the war would reverse a trend in South Vietnamese society which had strengthened Nguyen Van Thieu's position at its expense. Ten years of brutal warfare in the Vietnamese countryside, heightened savagely by the continual rain of American bombs, had herded the peasants into the disease-ridden shantytowns which ring Vietnamese cities. There Thieu's enormous police force could keep watch over them and insulate them from NLF influence. But with the end of the war, the NLF hoped the peasants could return...
Energy Savings. Indeed, school and police authorities blamed the darkness, in part, for a number of motor-vehicle accidents involving children, including a 16-year-old boy in suburban Chicago, run over en route to school. Californians were chilled by the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cupertino, who was attacked as she crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear...
Last fall one of his friends yielded to five days of brutal KGB interrogation; after giving up a copy of the manuscript, she hanged herself (TIME, Sept. 17). Once Gulag was in the hands of the security police, Solzhenitsyn could no longer protect his informants, most of whom are named in the book. In the preface, he explains his decision to publish: "For years I have with reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book. My obligation to those who are still alive outweighed my obligation to those who are dead. But now that State Security has seized...