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...Clausists grew in number even though The Santa Corporation hired agents of the darkest, most venal kind to destroy the movement. The people had simply had too much festivity; they were sick of it; they wanted a break from the fun. The corporate agent's most heavy-handed tactics could not persuade the people to whoop it up one week more...
...imagery that will easily come to mind with the mere mention of the film's title. Many viewers of Equus will fasten onto the scene of the nude Strang riding a madly galloping steed, a union of man and beast thrown into relief by backgrounds that alternate between the darkest of nights and a blinding brilliance of light. But the segment that qualifies as Lumet's tour de force lies elsewhere, in the scene showing Strang's brutal rampage through a stable--sparked by his failure to make love to young girl--that eventually leads him to Dysart's couch...
...summer-in-the-country boarding program to instill a taste for the good life, Paris was a fox in the hen house. It was days of sit-ins and Freedom Riders, when SNCC was still Salt and pepper, days of the first push for voter registration down in Darkest Alabama and if you were one of the chosen ones, one of the lucky knee-grow winners in the Great White Liberal Guilt Sweepstakes you could do no wrong. Of course, shooting a righteaous game of hoop...didn't hurt any either...
Alex Haley, against stupendous odds, pursued his Roots two centuries back to darkest Gambia. For 130 million Americans glued to the eight-part Haley-Kinte TV chronicle in January, it was a transit through time and tears more gripping than Upstairs, Downstairs or any Stanley Kubrick fantasy. Says Michael Tepper, editor of Genealogical Publishing Co. in Baltimore: "Roots has shown that what seemed remote and mysterious is in fact knowable and within our grasp. It has awakened a smoldering awareness of facts we only thought were unknowable...
...They at least went through the motions of paying careful attention. The robber was black, about six feet tall, and wore a light brown jacket, the student said. I remember that clearly because only a few minutes earlier I had walked past a man meeting that description in the darkest part of the Common...