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...rape of the Sabine women. "Criminal mutilation," says Woody Allen. "Artistic desecration," says the Directors Guild of America. "Cultural vandalism," says the Western branch of the Writers Guild of America. Not since Ingrid Bergman was run out of town on a morals charge has Hollywood been & in such a pious fit. Directors, actors, critics, even the odd editorialist, have risen as one to denounce the depredations of -- colorization...
...avant-garde alternative. The triumph of the avant- garde over the pompiers has been so complete that one can now look at the losers with calm interest and historical understanding. This is not a matter of camp revival, as some moralists insist, but of real history as against pious polemic...
Suddenly the pious atmosphere was shattered. Two young men who had been loitering outside, posing as tourists, pulled out Polish-made submachine guns and shot the custodian at the gate. Shouting in Arabic, they burst into the sanctuary, dropped an iron bar across the door to block it and, standing ten yards apart, began strafing the congregation. Shopkeepers nearby, just opening their stores or stalls for business, listened in horror to the rattle of gunfire and the screams of the dying. "I heard gunshots," said one bystander. "Then I saw a young man with injured feet come out yelling...
...Broadcast journalism's collective impact on the civil rights movement, Viet Nam and Watergate more than matched Murrow's exposure of the excesses of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Moreover, Murrow's work for CBS was not without flaw. His intonations and gestures were often stagy, his language orotund, his judgments pious. He squandered a lot of time on cozy, sometimes rehearsed celebrity interviews for Person to Person. Far more than any of his heirs, he let his personality and politics become a part of the story, particularly during the McCarthy...
...defendants' actions. Sanctuary lawyers nonetheless managed to slip several such references into testimony, and they plan to cite Carroll's ruling when they appeal the verdict. Prosecutor Reno, grandson of a Methodist preacher, faced some obstacles. He had the unenviable task of portraying as criminals a group of pious Good Samaritans (who held a prayer meeting after the jury announced its verdicts). One of the 15 Central Americans summoned to the stand by Reno, for instance, described a defendant as "the only person who offered me a roof over my head when I was most in need...