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...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...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: French Connection | 1/13/1972 | See Source »

...empire and the grate of memory flickers with glories past. David Storey has an option on this territory, and he looks back more in grief than in anger. He searches for the severed link with the imperial past. How did today's termites, he seems to ask, descend from yesterday's titans? He is a dramatic laureate of loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Laureate of Loss | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...Grannie Refro's birthday, and the family reunion. Jack was home from jail and the lovers were reunited. But it reads more like a Walt Disney script than a novel. The superbly animated, soulful characters are little dei ex machina without any sort of reality to descend into...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: One Time, One Place: A Mississippi Album | 12/1/1971 | See Source »

...stage in transports of pagan ecstasy. In Hair O'Horgan set a similar kind of group grope to a rock upbeat. In Lenny, a crowd of gigantic papier-mâché figures symbolizing his fantasies loom over the doomed comic Lenny Bruce. In Jesus Christ Superstar, O'Horgan has characters descend grandly from on high?now in a huge mysterious whalebone basket, now on a platform designed like a mammoth's skull. O'Horgan explains simply: "I like to fill the stage with lots of things to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Cerebral Trip Is Over | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

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