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Dorothy registers every lapse of taste and grace, but she is consumed by greed, and her judgment of her mother's loving servants is unfailingly obtuse. When the solicitor consults her about the dis position of the jewels - after the grande dame has at last died peacefully on her own commode - Dorothy asks, "Are there any jewels left, after the nurses have taken their pick...
These episodes suggest that Serpico is too driven to maintain a decent emotional relationship, so confused and compulsive that he revels in the chance to assume fresh identities with every dis guise. Such subtleties, however, are drowned out in the prevailing frenzy of Sidney Lumet's direction, and by the musical score of Mikis Theodorakis, which sounds like a patchwork of his music from Z and a concert of favorite folk songs by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Band...
This time Hickey has changed. He is off the booze and wants to save the in mates of the cafe with a gospel of dis illusionment. They are to test their pipe dreams in the outer world and come to uncompromising terms with themselves...
...Athens, a city where "everybody knows everybody else," almost everybody has heard of Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis (pronounced Ee-o-ahn-ee-dis). A spectral, Beria-like figure who commands Greece's military police force-the feared ESA-loannidis was not seen by the public even at the swearing-in ceremony of Phaedon Gizikis, the colorless army general who is Greece's new President. He did not really have to, since it is loannidis and not Gizikis who runs the junta...
...firm scientific evidence exists to prove or dis prove pyramid power. Laymen who experiment may be frustrated because precision is required. Pyramids must be aligned precisely on magnetic north. Being close to windows, radiators, fluorescent lights, radios, TV sets and other appliances can queer the effect. Says McLuhan somewhat pessimistically: "If you do all that, it may or may not work. If you don't, it certainly won't work...