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...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A nightmarish picture of poverty among Puerto Ricans in San Juan's La Esmeralda and New York City's Spanish Harlem-painted largely by the subjects themselves with the assistance of Anthropologist Lewis' ubiquitous tape recorder...
Last summer's macabre mass murders in Chicago and Austin seemed irresistibly fascinating to Robert Benjamin Smith, 18, studious, reticent high school senior in Mesa, Ariz. (pop. 50,000). Three months ago, Bob Smith began to concoct his own nightmarish schemes for multiple murder. After toying with several other likely sites, he settled on the Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a mile and a half from his home, because of the number of potential victims-student beauticians and housewife customers-to be found there...
...nightmarish visions of a rapidly disintegrating mind? Not at all. These are happenings in Greenwich Village as reported by the eleven-year-old weekly Village Voice. Few Village fancies escape the attention of the Voice. No Village fad-from psychedelic shopping centers to erotic Christmas ornaments-is too eccentric to be ignored. As a result, the weekly has begun to show a modest profit. Its circulation has reached 56,000. Now that it has embarked on its first promotion drive, it expects to reach 75,000 by next spring...
Even if sharing the Stadium would not change the face of Harvard sports, it would create more trouble than it is worth. The parking problem, for example, would be nightmarish...
Still, does lack of suspense matter? Hitchcock is more than a suspense-machine and a technician; his films reflect the work of a mature artist and contain great thematic depth and consistency. Using his familiar hero, the ordinary man plunged unexpectedly into a nightmarish world of melodrama, Hitchcock will allow the nightmare to bring about changes in his heroes: thematically, North by Northwest is about the redemption of a useless individual, The Man Who Knew Too Much about the emergence of a husband's desire to dominate his wife...