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...lost their parents in the Tel Zaatar massacre of 1976. A year before that, 27 Palestinian residents of the Tel Zaatar camp were slaughtered by Christian Phalangists as they returned by bus from a rally celebrating a terrorist attack on Qiryat Shemona. In 1976 the Phalangists used 75-mm and 155-mm howitzers for a seven-week siege of the camp in which 3,000 died. Tel Zaatar was demolished...
...evolve into an even stronger, more lasting vision. A civil servant from Mōmlingen, West Germany, on a tour of Italy with his wife Erna, Hartmann was in St. Peter's Square taking pictures of the Pontiff from behind, when shots rang out from the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol of Mehmet Ali Agca. Two weeks later, Hartmann and his wife were showing slides of then-vacation to their son Wolfgang, 33, a schoolteacher. Wolfgang immediately spotted what his parents had missed: perhaps the most chilling photographic record of the attempted assassination...
Bright Star began impressively. Some 500 U.S. military vehicles, ranging from trucks to armored personnel carriers to self-propelled howitzers and 155-mm field guns, rumbled off U.S. Navy transport ships in Alexandria. Waves of C-5A, C-141 and C-130 transports touched down at Cairo West Air Base, ferrying in supplies, equipment and 4,000 U.S. military personnel wearing newly designed desert camouflage fatigues...
Fromex prices are competitive with those of conventional film processors, but some customers doubt the quality of one-hour prints. Says Analyst Eugene Glazer of Wall Street's Dean Witter Reynolds: "The one-hour turnaround does not generally appeal to 35-mm camera users. They spend more for their equipment and want higher quality." Frome insists that his prints are at least as good as those of the leading conventional film developers...
...some people to Taxi and repel others, all for the wrong reasons. The right reasons are these: the film is witty, charming, rigorously unsentimental and fair to all its characters. Though none of the principals are professional actors, the performances are acute and convincing. The film, made in 16-mm for about $50,000, is handsomely photographed and edited with precision. Frank Ripploh is not simply a gay exhibitionist; he is a film maker of promise and achievement, and Taxi is a big step toward liberating the screen...