Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroes devote themselves to preserving the old Mahto ways. Nor is the book's message a new one. Ahbleza's last prophecy for his people, the Mahto band of the Teton Nation, is to recognize there are good white men as well as bad white men. Ruth Beebe Hill echoes this statement: there were good Indians as well as bad Indians...
...there is is curiously abstract and unemotional. More gore can often be seen on the television screen, and any number of films-Marathon Man, Death Wish, just about any Peckinpah film and certainly A Clockwork Orange-have contained far more stomach-churning brutality. Indeed, The Warriors' director, Walter Hill, goes out of his way to expunge any feeling of genuine menace or racial animosity. The gang called the Warriors is integrated; there are no scenes of sexual assault, so typical of this kind of film, and there is no attempt to scorn or bait the white middle class...
...picture opens, all the gangs of New York City have gathered in convention at a park in The Bronx, where they plot to take over the town, borough by borough. If they cooperate, instead of fighting one another, says Cyrus (Roger Hill), the Jim Jones-like figure who has brought them together, they can do whatever they want. Before he can go much further, however, Cyrus is assassinated, and the Warriors, who have come up to the meeting from Brooklyn, are wrongly blamed for his death. With that, all the assembled gangs, not to mention the police, are after them...
...movie like this caused such trouble? One reason may be, of course, that it is so stylized. Violence in films and TV has become so common that most audiences are inured to it. Hill's rendering may strike the deeper chords of instinct; the film does set audiences cheering in sympathy for the Warriors' run for freedom...
Harvard University had considered solar heating during the planning stages of the Observatory Hill athletic facility at the Radcliffe Quad, Burton Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe College, said yesterday. He said the planners conducted a study which demonstrated no major savings of energy or cost would result from the installation of solar electricity...