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...mired in an endless series of camera pans and scenes that beg a batch of questions. Parker leaves his audience hanging--for two hours--drawing us into his den with upbeat music and rousing clips of rhythmic, euphoric chaos. But characters rarely develop, and when they do, their plight and the plot remain exasperatingly unresolved...
Police blamed the trouble on "Skollies," or roughnecks. But few could doubt that underlying the rage in Cape Town was the cruel dilemma of the "in-betweeners," the plight of the coloreds, who are also imprisoned by apartheid. In their segregated ghetto, where whitewashed bungalows sit beside cardboard shacks, political avenues are closed to them; few have any sense of direction. Says Poet Adam Small, who lives near Elsies River: "People here are in limbo; they just don't care any more. Their children are bitter and ready for violence. Like the sand of the Cape flats, apartheid lies...
...fact that "Cup of Soup Men" would presumably have been historically inappropriate). The Tea Men are locked into the Eastern Division of the NASL's American Conference, dominated by a pair of strong Florida entries from Tampa Bay and Fort Lauderdale. No one pays much attention to their plight...
...meet with members of Congress, political advisers, party professionals and pollsters.In March editorial staff members convened with experts on Soviet-American relations to assess the present parlous state of affairs between the superpowers. Last month TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan organized a one-day colloquy on the plight of American families. Twelve outsiders, knowledgeable on 'such problems as child abuse, domestic relations and aging, joined 22 people from TIME in a wide-ranging and stimulating discussion that, sooner and later, in ways visible and invisible, will be shared with the readers of TIME...
...last winter's silver boom now transformed into mushrooming debts of $980 million, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt have been struggling all spring to fend off ruin. Papers on file last week in the Dallas County Courthouse, and elsewhere around the country, showed just how desperate their plight has become, as well as the extent of their fabled wealth...