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...Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee is asking Cronin harder questions and using all the confrontation tactics they can muster to ask them. Monday they held a rally in front of City Hall demanding an end to all evictions and a further downward adjustment of rents. Within the CTOC there are varying degrees of militancy. Bill Cunningham, one of the leaders of the CTOC, hasrefused since May to pay the $25 rent increase that his landlord demanded. After three attempts his landlord has finally succeeded in evicting him, but it took twenty police armed with clubs to do so. The tall, gaunt...
This sort of feeling has given rise to a special variation of the intricate signal that black soldiers in Viet Nam exchange when they meet. The standard greeting includes two taps on the chest -meaning "I will die for you." In Soul Alley, some blacks add a swift downward motion of the hand-a stroke to kill...
...with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting vertically on the horizon seen through a window. And when Danny chops wood, the sun produces flare effects on the axe's downward lunge, a pleasant bit of work-glorifying imagery. For the great part of the film's duration, however, the audience is merely lulled into acceptance by the screen's warm colors and the Brahms music on the soundtrack...
...battle for the division lead, Blanda came off the bench to attempt a 48-yd. field goal with just three seconds remaining. The Chiefs stationed 6-ft. 9-in. Tight End Morris Stroud at the goal post to try to jump up and block the ball on its downward flight. Blanda kicked, Stroud leaped, and the ball sailed inches over his fingertipsand over the crossbar. The Raiders had a 17-17 tie and the lead in their division...
...level and is given choices: up one floor to the permanent display of 45 paintings by Hans Hofmann-a bequest to the museum from his estate-or down to the free exhibition space on areas below. The floors are broken but connected by ramps, so that viewers move slowly downward through a constantly shifting interior, accented by promontories of raw concrete that jut over the halls like ships' prows. Says Director Peter Selz: "You devise ways and means of installing an exhibit to detain people, to keep them from moving on. Here we made cul-de-sacs...