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There are three Brian De Palmas-all the grinning, scheming sons of Alfred Hitchcock. With Sisters and Dressed to Kill, De Palma made his reputation as the Psycho student supreme, drawing curlicues of style and cheerfully obscene graffiti in the margins of that seminal horror-movie text. In Phantom of the Paradise and Home Movies, he displayed an impish, impudent sense of humor that recalls Hitchcock's macabre comedy The Trouble with Harry. But the most passionate Brian De Palma-and maybe the real one-is the child of Vertigo, Hitchcock's essay on the fatal power...
...RARELY has there been such grace under velocity in a film. Speilberg and Lucas, of course, have the credentials to pull is off if anyone does. Lucas started out with American Graffiti before he hit upon the Star Wars saga, and Spielberg has made possibly the best thriller ever with Jaws before moving on to the constantly mutating Close Encounters, All of those movies managed to hold that line--exuding innocence without necessarily being shallow (though Star Wars, arguably, was not so successful at this). Spielberg and Lucas, along with Coppola, are the epitome of the new breed of film...
...response to a complaint from the audience about graffiti on the subway cars}]. It is a true story. You know graffiti is not put on as the trains are in the train stations. It is put on in the yards. And the way you prevent the graffiti and the vandalizing of those subway cars is to protect them when they are in the yards. I said to Dick Ravitch [chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority], I said to Dick, 'Look. Why don't you build a fence around the yards at night and put a dog in there to protect...
...famines are headed by one parent. The TV comedy Good Times-about a loving, industrious black mother and children-is centered on a family at Cabrini-Green, but the project may be more like the gang-war surrealism of The Warriors. The rat-infested buildings are ravaged: graffiti-scarred stairwells, bashed-in doors, broken elevators, roaches everywhere. And the streets and hallways are ruled by marauding youth gangs that police say number 100 in all. Squads of Cobra Stones live at Cabrini-Green, and they are in an almost constant state of war with the resident members of the Black...
Solidarity chapters threatened immediate wildcat strikes. Posters and graffiti denouncing the beatings appeared across the country. The union demanded that those responsible be dismissed from their jobs. Most union members were convinced that the government, possibly egged on by Moscow, had ordered the beatings to force a showdown with the union. Said a Solidarity official in Bydgoszcz: "It was meant as a provocation to provide an excuse for action against the union." Many foreign analysts concurred. Said a Kremlinologist in the French foreign ministry: "We have no doubt that Bydgoszcz was a deliberate provocation...