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There is one unqualified success: David Huddleston's Big Joe, an aging outlaw with the fight knocked out of him, who is spare in action but effulgent in abuse, and directs his thugs like the Joe Mankiewicz who Benton and Newman once worked for (on whom the character is reportedly based). Still, there's a lot of soggy Harvey Schmidt pianoforte and vacant land-scapes and awkward tries at folksiness to go through before he meets his end. By the time he brags about being "the oldest whore on the block," it's become clear that not only Jake...
...Hannêche scandal changes all that. Belgium's Parliament is expected to act this week to outlaw any further dumping. At Hannêche, 50 specialists from the civil defense department, wearing rubber suits and gas masks, now are carefully examining and repacking some 10,000 drums of chemical wastes, many of which turn out to be labeled "concentrated orange juice." The poisons are to be transferred to the nuclear center of Mol, near Brussels, but scientists there do not have the means to get rid of the toxic stockpile either. The most likely solution: the poisons will...
...politicians go. For my money, the best political film ever made is called Salvatore Giuliano, and was made by an Italian Marxist. Francesco Rosi, in 1962. He was one of the first of his countrymen to reveal the linkages of local corruption in any hardnosed way, while debunking Sicilian outlaw mythology. Rosi shows what really happened to the legendary Guihano after World War II, when he was paid by the Mafia to attack growing native Communism, and then was himself assassinated. Rosi was not interested in the emotional dynamics of the situation, only in the political case at hand, making...
Civil libertarians and writers immediately charged that the proposed definition of obscenity would "virtually outlaw any expression of nonconformity" and "inhibit the serious artist." The Times of London found the whole report effective "as a barrage in a campaign" but not thorough, coherent or detached enough to be useful in sparking new legislation...
...nation's courts were meant to be not a barometer of prevailing public opinion but an arbiter of law. Nevertheless, as the Supreme Court of California last February and later the U.S. Supreme Court moved to outlaw capital punishment, Californians at least may feel justified in claiming that the high judges are acting against the popular will. A Mervin Field California Poll disclosed last week that the death penalty is growing rather than receding in popularity. Fully 66% of Californians now favor use of the gas chamber for those who commit serious crimes, while only 24% oppose...