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...Friday, equipped with a college education and all the sensitivity-training the Los Angeles Police Department can offer, would probably find pounding a beat on the hostile streets of Watts a frustrating experience. After reading Varieties of Police Behavior, one might even guess that Friday would cause more friction there than would the proverbial Irish cop with a parochial grade school education...
...inveterate prankster who used to break up his staid colleagues in the Budapest Quartet by inserting pictures of nude women between the pages of their scores. He is also an accomplished chef. One source of friction in his brief marriage to Actress Geraldine Page (1954-57) seems to have been her insistence on eating peanut-butter sandwiches; few would fault Sasha there...
...contempt for his work. His wife (Eleanor Fazan) attests Maitland's bankrupt marriage. He resorts to his sage and patient mistress (Jill Bennett), not to exchange the gift of self but to flee from self. His casual office couchmates simply represent a frantic release of tension in the friction of flesh. Maitland propositions girls with brusque self-regard: "Do you like it, do you want it? Those are the only questions I have ever thought worthwhile going into...
...because Wiley was making it on the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. Recalls the artist: "I didn't think of the black and white as racial, but when I heard about King being shot, it suddenly seemed relevant-the rickety structure, the black friction tape, the white mess." Through his almost accidental and homely memorial, Wiley sardonically reminds his viewers that chance and blind illogic play roles in art as well as in life...
...cleared a 30-ft. channel in unbroken blue ice 14 inches thick. It also knifed 180° turns as though the ice were butter. Running at speeds from 21 to 31 knots, the tug accelerated easily in thinner ice because there was no friction along the sides of the barge - the Alexbow had thrown all the troublesome chunks clear...