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...next to John Lithgow's ramrod prissy Luzhin, the rich, hollow financee of Raskolnikov's sister. The lines of character like the lines of John Braden's sets are balanced, clear and instantly defined. Bea Paipert creates two brief roles, the hunched, old pawnbroker Raskolnikov kills and a crazy madam at a police station, in maybe three minutes of stage time. Tom Jones plays a marvelously affected Police Lieutenant who obviously should have been a general...
...attentively to the words of a cocktail waiter, then slips him a bar of silver. In an office of the U.S. embassy in Bonn, a rotund Sovietologist digests a stack of reports that may originate from any one of a thousand sources -a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda broadside. At an airfield on Taiwan, a black U-2 reconnaissance plane with a Nationalist Chinese pilot at the controls soars off the runway, bound for skies 15 miles above Red China on a photographic mission...
...that the insistence on black power, with its current overtones, will be an alienating influence. He told of a wealthy white woman who came down to Watts and wanted to do her part by writing him a check for $20. "I told her 'We don't want your money, madam; we just want you to spend some of your time working in our community.' Since then she's contributed a couple thousand dollars," Pastard said. Then he looked up with a mischievous smile...
...have declared war on the party in general. There were more reports of indiscriminate beatings of local party officials, and in one town the party leader was smeared with muck and dragged through the streets. Despite Chou's explicit warning, Red Guards also ransacked the Shanghai home of Madam Sun Yatsen, the widow of the man who founded the Chinese Republic in 1911. The Guards denounced her for living in luxury unbecoming to a citizen of Mao's China. On yet another front, the Guards ordered the disbanding of the 60 million-member Young Communist League. The League...
Schrotel ran a model department. His men were ordered to say "sir" or "madam" when stopping a motorist, were warned against swaggering up to the car or leaning on the door. In the central station house, Schrotel had lists of " the prisoners' constitutional rights stenciled in black on the walls of every cell and even above the pay telephone. The chief's apprentice program enabled young high school graduates to serve as police cadets while they were going to college...