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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to translate into film. Actors, scenery and background music only dilute the intensity of Portnoy's brilliant lie-down comic routine on the psychoanalyst's couch. Roth's re-Joycing in the scenes of Portnoy's heroic masturbations lose their hilarious dimension and descend pathetically into the baggy-pants scatology of the oldtime burlesque skit...
They were legion. Many of the area's senior citizens seemed convinced that radical youths would descend upon their sunny fastness and murder them in their beds. Before the meeting, Oliver Bright, president of the Greater Miami Crime Commission, issued a somewhat shrill statement claiming that the area faces a grave "crime crisis" if Miami Beach is host to back-to-back national political conventions. The statement said in part: "The likelihood of 100,000 or more militants, demonstrators and hippies camping on the beach, in the parks and on the streets for six weeks could be disastrous...
...spacecraft will carry Mattingly and his two crewmates, John Young and Charles Duke, on the fifth-and next to last-scheduled U.S. expedition to the moon. It may also be the most exciting. While Mattingly performs experiments in lunar orbit Aboard the command ship Casper.* Young and Duke will descend in the lunar module Orion (after the constellation), explore the surface for 21 hours and collect a record 195 Ibs. of rocks. What will make these explorations even more scientifically interesting is their site: the lunar highlands, considered the moon's oldest and most rugged terrain...
...five flashlights descend on him, swooping and swirling in the night...'Hey look what we got here!'...and then one of the sheriffs makes the mistake of saying 'Let's go son' and, Chick, he's up and says...
...this world without good guys: the ones who suffer in the poverty of New York's black-Latin neighborhoods, suffer a little less when they can afford to buy a high-priced fix of the businessmen's mass-marketed wares, and suffer a lot more when the narcotics detectives descend on them on their way to making the big bust, beating them for whatever information they can supply and sending them up for possession of controlled drugs...