Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BLACK EYE. Dim days on the private-investigator scene: a shamus named Stone, cashiered from the force for strangling a dope dealer with his bare hands, lights out after a kinky killer who has disposed of the whore upstairs. Stone (Fred Williamson), who is black, is helped along by a friendly detective (Richard X. Slattery) who is white, and tormented by thoughts of the slinky number on the first floor, who is bi. Stone is made to feel unduly stuffy because the sight of his girl (Teresa Graves) with another woman makes him queasy. She sets him straight, though, without...
...bruising personal setback. "Until now Fanfani has run the Christian Democrats like a despot," said a Socialist official. "He won't be able to do that any more." The Communists, generally delighted by the outcome of the referendum, may find that the Christian Democrats' weakness will dim prospects for the "historic compromise" between left and right that Enrico Berlinguer has proposed between Italy's two largest parties...
...intelligent, vehement film, Love and Anarchy begins with dim promise. A young boy sits on a chamber pot in the bedroom of an Italian farmhouse. In the kitchen, his parents talk politics with an old friend. They are poor people, and what the little boy hears is the distillation of years full of want and struggle. The political talk is angry, what might be called, at a more comfortable distance, radical. Finally, unable to control his curiosity any longer, the little boy shouts into the other room, "Mommy, what's an anarchist...
...lights dim and rooms fill once again with the familiar strains of Rossini's William Tell Overture, theme music for The Lone Ranger. Or with Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, accompanying another episode of The Green Hornet. Once more The Shadow purrs, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Sergeant Preston of the Yukon hustles his huskies, Our Gal Sunday strives to find happiness with a wealthy, titled Englishman, and 15-year-old Speed Gibson of the International Police doggedly pursues his archfoe, The Octopus...
...beating the cards and dice, of winning on the "bangtails" at the track and the time in New Orleans he lit a cigar with a C-note. Hughie was his audience, the receptacle of the deceits that keep Erie alive. Charley (Peter Maloney), the new clerk, listens in the dim lobby with a sort of it-takes-all-kinds distraction, but eventually and subtly is transformed into the new Hughie, Erie's collaborator in his own illusions...