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...Hostages is finishing off its week at the Harvard Sq. Theater, and without a doubt it's the best new movie around. The plot centers around three French thieves who take a judge hostage when their legal situation becomes hopeless. A very exciting and sympathetic portrait that gets better and better every time you see it. It's playing with another wonderful film about French criminals, Borsalino. Jean Paul Belmondo gives a marvelous performance as an up-and-comer in the Marseilles rackets...
...long as newspapers construe their social roles as conduits of sensation, the levels of human sympathy and understanding to be found in them won't be very high. That's too bad, but the situation isn't hopeless. Other media, particularly film, can take the same sort of events newspapers sensationalize and gloss over, and convey some genuine feeling for what goes on in people's minds and hearts. It is a significant and difficult task--especially in a movie industry that is used to milking "real-life human drama" for all the dough it's worth...
Lenny, like poor mad Swift, was a moralist and a conservative. He scourged human deceits and imperfections because he was inseparably attached to the hopeless absolutes they betrayed. His bottom most affinities lay not with his liberal and youthful supporters but with the judges and cops whom he enraged. He shared that rage in a sense and dreamed of vindication in their eyes and desperately believed that the Law would give him a fair shake...
...reports that 160,000 blacks are no longer even bothering to look for work because of what it calls "discouragement over job prospects." Says Robert S. Browne, director of the Black Economic Research Center based in Harlem: "I look out my window and see streets lined with people looking hopeless. Unfortunately, I think that that group is growing larger...
...climax. But he adamantly refused to act, he said, as a "sentry" to keep the fedayeen out of Palestine, meaning that he would not monitor commando raids on Israel from Syrian bases. On Sunday night, May 26, Kissinger and his aides met and concluded that the task was "hopeless." Next morning the Secretary had another meeting with Assad, who seemed reluctant to see the negotiations peter out. "You know," he said, "this is really very painful, and it is really a pity. It is going to be very hard to revive this...