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Despite the interior excitement and free-spending atmosphere, much of Atlantic City remains pocked with urban blight and decay. Worse, state officials are concerned about the infiltration of organized crime into the business and last week unsealed an indictment against several people, some of whom are thought to have Mafia ties, for tampering with slot machines at Caesars. Even so, investors who shunned Atlantic City when gambling was first made legal five years ago are now having hasty second thoughts. Holiday Inns and the Trump Organization have broken ground on a jointly owned $200 million hotel-and-casino complex adjacent...
...ancient and modern water systems were once connected, there is no supporting evidence. In fact, says McCauley, "the trending of the [ancient] rivers is to the south and west, the opposite of the present-day movement. It is possible they all joined up to one large basin of interior drainage as large as the Caspian...
...upheaval a pure narrow gray band of personal experience. The subject--four Poles stranded in London during the imposition of martial law naturally invites an impassioned ideological treatment, but Skolimkowski's film is, on the surface, politically devoid. Instead we are given nearly flawless meditation on exile from an interior perspective...
...group. Their only link to the outside world while they're in England. Nowak becomes the defacto leader. Throughout the film, the workers speak among themselves in Polish. Skolimkowski has wisely refrained from using subtitles, interpolating instead a spare, running monologue by Nowak. Through this technique, his interior state and isolation become almost palpable...
...CHARACTER OF NOWAK is the center of Moonlighting, with the others merely secondary. Wish only the little dialogue and only spare interior monologue Jeremy Irons managed to capture and delineate every nuance of his character's brooding intensity. An equally superb performance is that of writer-director Skolimkowski. Conceived and completed in one month. Moonlighting shows a rare combination of white hot inspiration and totally lucid artistic control. Every scene, from the opening to the remarkable closing image is effective and forms a part of considered whole. The almost documentary like cinematography captures the dark visual textures and somber Irony...