Word: chinatown
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...California itself. Workers' exploitation, racism, red-baiting, wage-fixing by agricultural employers, violent repression of the civil rights of farm workers with the active collaboration of the police and the courts, tax-payers' subsidies used to boost the profits of landlords and agribusinesses, from the story of Owens Valley ("Chinatown") to the West Side swindle and the importation of bracers, the bloody battles fought by early squatters and the recent murder of Juan de la Cruz on a picket line--all these are permanent features of the great agricultural valleys of California...
...Chinatown, 1:30, 5:30, 9:30; King of Marvin Gardens...
...Chinatown. I reserve judgment on this controversial picture until I see it again under competent circumstances. But Polanski seemed cold and showy in this movie, and to cut off possibilities for making points by creating character so self-interested and manipulative that they never even hint at what they really feel...
...sort of symbolic biography of the French swindler (nicely played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) whose exposure almost brought down the Third Republic in 1934. Resnais has had the movie photographed like a posh '30s illustration, a style made fashionable by films as varied as The Conformist and Chinatown. But Resnais undercuts all his images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge Semprun (Z), present their Stavisky as a doom-haunted manic-depressive...
...result, there are few people practicing acupuncture legally here, although a great number are practicing it against the law. Last year, in New York's Chinatown, hundreds of individuals were arrested for treating patients with acupuncture, and two clinics operating without a license were forced to close down. In China, on the other hand, there are over 1,000,000 specialists, 150,000 of whom are doctors and the rest trained practitioners, conducting acupuncture therapy...