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...SERIES of powerful shots of downtown Kingston, music enables Director Perry Henzell to move quickly from closeup to closeup without disrupting the viewer's overall perspective. Music knifes through the film as the constant reminder of the attraction of the successful hustle. Henzell is able to spotlight key segments of dialogue by removing the mantle of sound, and isolating them in sudden stark silence...
...comes to the city determined to become a top singer of "reggae" [what polite Jamaicans used to call ragamuffin music; it is a sort of synthesis of American rock and Jamaican native sounds]. Cliff found his way to shantytown from a little village in the country. He came to Kingston to go to technical school, quit after a very short while, and then hustled himself into the music business. For him, The Harder they Come is really part of the hustle...
IVAN ARRIVES in Kingston and is immediately ripped off when he finds that in the big city even getting directions cost money. "You think town is easy," cautions a relative Ivan finds in town. "I can sing," he replies, the young Elvis Presley waiting for his inevitable break. Ivan gets the name of a churchman who is to give him a job, and begins his move through a series of rackets...
Style is all in this world. The revival meetings in the preacher's church and the rock and reggae that float over Kingston like a frowning cloud, are both variations on the same theme. To prosper is to create reality--to find your medium and sell it. In Jamaica, the sudden graft of Western society on to a pre-industrial culture has produced a society where the only alternative to living a mythical electronic life is the clutching poverty of the shacks of West Kingston...
...elected are: Philip N. Alexander of Dunster House and Kingston, Jamaica; John Arao of Leverett House and Evanston, III.; Jeffrey D. Bernhard of Quincy House and Buffalo, N.Y.; Michael M. Biehl of Adams House and Elm Grove, Wis.; John P. Boyd of Lowell House and Stoneham; Steven C. Bunnell of Kirkland House and Rumson, N.J.; Ira A. Burnim of North House and Melrose; and, Jack F. Conn of South House and CreveCoeur...