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City Garrisons. Urbanologist Wilson notes that most European countries have special national riot-control police to cope with such violent disorders as Detroit's-most notably France's Compa-gnies Republicaines de Securite, which usually lurk a block or two from the scene of the anticipated action, and move in if the local flics, who are pretty rough customers themselves, with their 6-ft. batons and leaded capes, prove unable to manage. Wilson suggests that the U.S. may soon find that it needs similar professional forces-possibly organized by the states, but more probably a federal force deployed...
...Everything will coom raght," both sides insist, but as the parents exchange confidences, it becomes obvious that Oedipus and Electra complexes lurk in corners of both households. At the film's finale, everything does indeed coom raght for the young couple, who go off on their own, though behind them they leave four unhappily married parents, whose permanent frustrations are now a little deeper...
Expo 67 is Celluloid City. In nearly every pavilion of Montreal's spectacularly successful world exhibition-more than 18 million visitors so far-the viewer is the ultimate target of a projector. Sometimes film flutters futuristically above or beneath him; sometimes images lurk and flicker all around him, caroming off walls, whirring on blocks and prisms, on hexagons and cruciforms. Sometimes movies are even mounted on a plain old rectangular screen-but everywhere there is film, film, film unreeling...
...President even alluded wryly to the furor over his rejection of Artist Peter Kurd's official presidential portrait last month. "The presidency," mused Johnson, "is a hazardous-duty job, and I have learned recently that danger can lurk in unsuspected places. Portrait unveilings, for example...
...merchant." For a major star, he is unique in lacking idiosyncrasies, ranging without trick or mannerism or telltale signature from classical heroes to contemporary antiheroes. A gaunt six-footer, he looks like a fine-grained, graceful Abe Lincoln. His expression glows with open intelligence, wit, humanity. From two foxholes lurk eyes that can flick a sense of danger to the farthest balcony. A critic wrote that he has the face of a fallen angel...