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...this usually amounts to what Penologist Howard Gill calls "birdshot penology." All the bands, baseball, radios and rodeos cannot gloss the fact that real rehabilitation is rare. Caging still outranks curing; short funds dilute short-stay effectiveness. And prison job-training is a scandal. Federal prisons do well; yet only 17% of released federal inmates find jobs related to their prison work. Most state prisoners get no usable training because business and unions have rammed through laws preventing competition by prison industries. At least one-third of all inmates simply keep the prison clean-or do nothing...
Plethora of Parodies. All three schools have been around long enough -U.S.C., the nation's oldest, was founded in 1929-to have developed more or less distinctive styles of their own. U.C.L.A. favors and encourages free-form experimentation. Moviemakers at rival U.S.C. try to put a high professional gloss on their products and are very Hollywood-conscious-so much so that one professor recently complained about the plethora of student parodies of Bonnie and Clyde. N.Y.U. students, by contrast, tend to turn out deliberately rough-hewn works with the grainy look of neorealistic, cinema-verite documentaries-a reflection, perhaps...
...result is the "Motown sound" -basically the Negro rhythm-and-blues style that has captured a vast white audience in recent years, but now stamped into slick model lines and given the hard chrome gloss that Gordy used to fit into autos. "This is just something we feel and therefore produce," says Gordy. "We've never stopped to think about...
Across the country, the preferred brand is Argo Gloss Starch, available in either the economy-size blue box at 19? or the handy red box at 11?. Both contain chewy lumps that taste, according to one gourmet, like "a cross between milk of magnesia and matzo. The texture is that of an after-dinner mint." Like peanuts, one handful leads to another. "After a box of it," said one woman, "my throat gets kind of sticky, so I go and get a big glass of ice water. Then I get a powerful desire for more." Some enthusiasts spice laundry starch...
Anouilh's Creon is intelligent, dignified, and efficient. He didn't seek power, but "once I take on the job, I must do it properly." He is not without some compassion; he even offers to gloss over Antigone's first violation of his edict if she will agree not to repeat it. To him the burial of Polyneices is "meaningless," the people he governs are "featherheaded rabble," and "this whole business is nothing but politics." Carnovsky is marvelously forceful in describing his job ("Kings, my girl, have other things to do than to surrender themselves to their private feelings...