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Joey borrowed $500 from Chris the Cab Driver one dark snowy night in New York. He and the girl came to Boston, but she left him when the money was gone. Joey started to drift West- Springfield, Buffalo, Indianapolis- wherever there was pool action...

Author: By Lester Conklin, | Title: Pool Hustler on the Road Again | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

Smith dropped out of high school twice and then joined the Marines; when his hitch was up, he returned to drift from job to job in northern New Jersey. When the body of a 15-year-old high school student named Victoria Zielinski, from Ramsey, was found partially clothed, her head crushed, Smith was brought in for questioning. After a day of intensive interrogation-without legal counsel-he gave police an oral statement that the Bergen County prosecutor's office claimed was an unsigned confession. Smith disavowed it during his trial, but he was convicted after less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Long Wait | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Tito warned his countrymen that foreign agents (meaning primarily Soviet secret police) had been exerting "unbelievable pressure" on the government. "We should allow no sixth column to penetrate our country," he said. It is possible, of course, that he had chosen to fight the drift toward separatism by raising the specter of Soviet troublemaking. But there is no doubt that the Soviets would like to see Yugoslavia disintegrate. If Tito manages to arrange a genuine succession, he will have made another great stride toward achieving a reasonably democratic Marxist society. If he fails, Yugoslavia could splinter under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Working Against Time | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

PEOPLE in period costumes drift onto the stage. They start playing games, tag and such. A few laughs. Young, happy smiles. Meaningful interaction; instant commune. What, this pseudo-Grotowskian exercise crap, this is HARPO? But wait, that clown drooling into the bucket, the increasingly precise blocking pattern, the scene titles, then the impeccable cockney accents; this is pure Larry Senclick, the master of the rococo basics, Harvard's exponent of technical theatricality, a man who has an amazing talent for layering upon any script a tremendous variety of gimmicks, jokes, and cheap bits, and proceeding to hit them so hard...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: Giggles Anything You Say Will Be Twisted | 5/12/1971 | See Source »

Skezag (a slang term for heroin) is a relentless portrait of three junkies who shoot up in front of the camera and drift off into their heroin fantasies of incoherent hostility and depression. Before they do, Skezag records a long conversation between Film Makers Joel Freedman and Philip Messina and a smooth-talking hustler named Wayne, who claims that he is not really addicted. Two friends of his eventually enter the claustrophobic scene: Sonny, quiet and morose, and Angel, who talks a political line. Casually and inevitably they all take heroin. Returning to the ghetto, they realize anew they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Streets | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

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