Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moore has recently researched drug abuse, gun control, organized crime control, analysis of implementation problems and public management. He has also published several articles on regulation the heroin market...
Most of them are hilarious, like a young couple skating together for the first time, the woman trying desperately to be graceful in her short shorts and her boyfriend trying to stay in control--while enjoying the view. Equally amusing are an older couple trying fruitlessly to act young again but having a great time, and racing tots who look ready to fall off their skates...
...most dangerous assignments in journalism. Stewart, 37, was the first foreign press fatality in the 19 months of fighting, a providential record considering the grave risks that many journalists have been taking. Snipers, street-corner gunfights and indiscriminate government bombing and strafing are ever present threats. Areas of control shift constantly, and both sides are showing a tendency to shoot first and ask questions never. "This is a war of murder," said U.S. Vice Consul John Bargeron. "Executions are normal. They kill like this every...
What redeems these stereotypes is the controlled, idiosyncratic performances of a superb supporting cast. Director Siegel (Dirty Harry) never lets an actor go overboard. The same lean quality is visible in his film making. With the help of Bruce Surtees' elegant, metallic-hued cinematography, Siegel makes every point as economically as possible. His style is the visual equivalent of John D. MacDonald's prose, which serves this kind of material well. The tension builds so naturally that neither hokey music or contrived menace is necessary. Only once does Siegel lose control - in a jarringly graphic finger-chopping scene...
...forgotten nothing, British Historian Ronald Fraser records the memories of survivors. He digs for the truth about Communist betrayals and fascist atrocities, executioners and victims. Many of the recollections are as sanguinary as the war: bombs strike a hospital, airplanes strafe civilians, firing squads are everywhere. Hitler and Stalin control the moves offstage, ever willing to sacrifice Spaniards to German and Soviet causes. Contradiction is the order of the day: "How do you explain that?" inquires a woman. "?Dios mio! The people who destroy holy images kiss them." On the left, a father and son have their own civil...