Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspected torch who turned state's evidence, pointing the finger at local landlords and corrupt city officials. Until then, private investigators for insurance companies had been sniffing around the remains of burned-out houses, working the streets and doing undercover work in Boston bars with an eye out for well-known torches. With evidence of a conspiracy growing, 15 teams of city and state police joined the private eyes, and finally, after 16 months of probing suspicious fires in the Boston area coupled with the talkative torch's testimony, they rounded up 100 more witnesses and paraded them...
...ostracizing of Short Eyes functions as a prelude to the crux of Pinero's work, the examination of the peculiar brand of morality that governs the behavior of inmates. Pinero is making a critical argument. Even the most incorrigible criminals in our society do draw the line at some point; the dehumanizing effects of incarceration do not completely erase some sense of what is right and what is wrong, however loose the criteria may be. In no one is Pinero's point better epitomized than in Juan (Jose Perez), a stocky Puerto Rican who stands alone as the only inmate...
...Each character, we feel, has his own identity, his own rationale for living, and a small but important fate to be played out against the background of a faltering England. Drabble has the novelistic strength to make the most of her role as omniscient author, taking a God's eye view toward her characters that is at once demanding yet sympathetic. Fortunately for the reader, she has the psychological insight and talent to carry...
...month's rift between Communists and Socialists occurred over the question of what to do about the hundreds of subsidiaries owned by the nine industrial groups that they hope to nationalize. The Socialists wanted to take over only those that are wholly owned, while the Communists had their eye on all those in which the parent company's stake was greater than 50%. Business reacted to news of the impasse with jubilation: the next day stock prices on the stagnant Paris Bourse climbed 4%. Today the index stands almost 24% above its level last...
...Looking for Mr. Goodbar, clearly understood the appeal of this kind of masochistic allegory, as the best-seller success that greeted her pulp novel demonstrated. That Richard (In Cold Blood) Brooks-should decide to bring this trash-posing-as-fiction to the screen also shows at once a keen eye for the commercial and a readiness to pursue his art within the constraining framework of a depressing narrative. In taking on a character like Theresa Dunn as the focal point of his film, Brooks has confirmed an affinity for the dark underside of the individual initially suggested by his adaptation...