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...Street in a North Cambridge, Mass., housing project. The children in the first film are from the middle class; in the second, lower class. But they face the same shifting anxieties, the same ominous anomie. Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge follows the narrative line of earlier "teen gang" pictures-from idleness to violence, for no other reason than for something to do-but has a special kick. Here are boys and girls 12, 13, 14, precociously aping their elders. It makes the climax, in which they demolish the local high school, as chilling as any thing...
They did not take to the idea of school in the beginning. In Argyle 4 a gang of six welcomed a new American volunteer teacher with fistfuls of stones thrown through the classroom window. Many Vietnamese children in the refugee camps have never gone to school, or quit very early. Many are country kids. Many have been used to running wild back home, and have never conformed to an institution. Yet some are catching on rather well. A fine pencil drawing of a classroom shows open books resting on four desks in neat rows, with the teacher's desk elevated...
...shot the President. Awaiting trial early this year, at which his lawyers will plead insanity, Hinckley, alone in a Maryland stockade cell, now has only himself to hurt; twice he has attempted suicide. Agca, after a boyhood of rural Turkish poverty, attended two universities and eventually joined a gang of young fascist thugs in Istanbul. In their thrall he became a practiced assassin two years before his descent on Rome. Agca's motive was nominally political ("A protest against imperialism," he claimed) but had only the hermetic coherence of the demented. Said the Italian prosecutor of Agca...
...gang of assassins running toward a Cairo reviewing stand to gun down Anwar Sadat...
Throughout his career, Italian culture buzzed with manifestoes, claims and counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...