Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Baubles, Bangles and Beads and Stranger in Paradise, the voices are notable only for amplification. At any moment, the drums bursting in the orchestra are probably in one's ears. Except for a rather lyrical mating dance done in beautifully evocative bird costumes by Eleanor McCoy and Miguel Godreau, the choreography is basic hootchy-kootchy...
...narrative starts off on a conventional note. The camera follows a prison guard into the inner confines of the penitentiary, enabling Young to run through a quick introduction of the various inmates around whom the plot centers. Miguel Pinero fills his script with the street-wise argot of Harlem and the South Bronx that gives the dialogue an authentic ring. The effective color and accuracy of the ghetto-flavored jive should hardly come as a surprise; Pinero owes this ability to evoke a particular brand of slang to his own experience as an inmate at Sing Sing Prison. The crisp...
...York City, this film offers a brutally honest slice of prison life, and it is completely devoid of the mawkish hand wringing that has characterized most other American jailhouse movies. There are no bad-guy guards to hiss at, no latter-day Birdmen of Alcatraz to root for. Writer Miguel Pinero, who served five years at Sing Sing for armed robbery and is currently under indictment for other crimes, asks the audience to see his characters for exactly what they...
...Hearn's department store in Brooklyn, youths stripped clothing from window mannequins, broke their limbs and scattered them on the floor. Said Miguel Ten, a Viet Nam veteran who stood guarding Arnet's Children's Wear store: "This reminds me of Pleiku in 1966. There was a war out here. And the mannequins remind me of the dead people I saw in Nam without legs and arms...
...unquestioned star of the meet was Northeastern sophomore Bruce Bickford, who outran Hillary Tuwei of Richmond University in the stretch of the 3000 meter steeplechase to set a meet record of 8:34.76. The old record was 8:41.0, set by Miguel Roche of Rutgers...