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...wasn't working. His own performance is suitably ironic, suitably loud. But he never builds to any turning point. It is easy to miss some of his crucial lines. If Williams meant Danton to seem to be playing a role, he almost succeeded. But he never gives us a patch of sincerity to contrast the act with. Even in the lovely prison soliloquy, Danton's character remains ambiguous...
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a $6-a-day Negro woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe. State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the stomach, and died eight days later...
...does no good to patch streets if the patches are going to wash out in the next day's rain. Each week City workmen fill three-foot deep holes on Mass. Ave. near Littauer and each week the some holes reappear, a little deeper than before. The holes are filled with gravel held together by something sticky, but it obviously is not sticky enough. Bicyclists who try to avoid the gaps in the street run the risk of being struck...
...there some reason why the same incompetent patch jobs is performed over and over again? Surely there must be some contractor in the City able to do a patch job which will last more than 24 hours...
...passenger on the Air France flight from Paris to Mexico City whose bags were 260 Ibs. overweight was, of course, a movie star. Because of her, flowers were waiting at the airport, and so was the press. Floodlights were turned on to make a patch of noon on the dark runway, and the photographers stood poised at its fringes, squinting up into the light as the first tourists filed off the plane. Then she appeared in the welcoming glare-and nobody took her picture. An awkward moment. She smiled and started down the ramp. "There she is!" cried the producer...