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Criminals are dealt with so lightly here that one New York accountant was moved to remark, "You get one hanging judge down here and that will clear up the problem." Hardly, but then a good police force might. Since most native islanders opt for bureaucratic jobs rather than manual labor (that is done largely by "bonded" blacks from other islands), virtually every criminal seems to have a relative in a government job who will work to prevent him from being found out, arrested or held for any length of time...
...that point, a family approached and asked for tickets to a free vegetarian feast to be hosted by the Krishna community. The ascetic gave the tickets gladly, smiling at the family as it strolled away. He observed how obvious it was that he had just dealt with humans and not with beasts; they were sensitive, warm, and compassionate people. I had observed only their friendliness and their desire for free food...
Kazen maintained that her course dealt with the entire ethnic experience and not only with Chicanos and Boricuas. The students rejected this interpretation and threatened to disrupt her class...
...very short history of films made by committed artists with political intentions. There are the famous propaganda films--Leal Riefenstahl's Olympia and Triumph of the Will, the early Soviet Union silent classics, the American, "Why We Fight" series during World War II. But films which have dealt with social process in a direct attempt to instruct or instigate change are few and mostly foreign. Think of Battle of Algiers The Confession If the films of Godard...
...been the subject of a good deal of his work, most recently in Play It Again, Sam. But now the jokes are well-worn, and good, manic ideas are congealing into formulas. Bananas was Woody's best movie, not only because it was his wildest but because it dealt with such eminently ridiculous matters as Latin American politics and TV newscasters...