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When the tabloid-size Trib hit New York City last January, it had a print order of 200,000 copies, an innovative magazine-style format, a highly automated production system, a blue-chip board of politically conservative backers and a priceless reservoir of good wishes from a city that had not seen a major new daily in seven years. As the paper's bus ads trumpeted, THE TRIB: IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED SOONER...
...this film purports to be a well-rounded study of character development, it fails after a certain point: while Benji and Butler come to a closer understanding of one another and learn to adjust to each other's differences, there is a certain reservoir of tension between them that can never be resolved, not even in the film's closing shot of their final embrace. If, on the other hand, the film tries to represent a 'slice of life,' a sampling of the ghetto experience, then it succeeds. The unrefined and somewhat static nature of the characters can only...
More fundamentally, however, Britain's high unemployment rate and inflationary economy is creating a growing reservoir of the dangerously disillusioned and the increasingly desperate. The National Front is thriving specifically on the frustrations, the angers and the hardships that are the human consequences of Britain's economic decline...
...while obviously championing the members of the burgeoning class of laborers who are divorced from the means of production. Finch is simultaneously tapping the huge reservoir of power seething from the thousands of small landed proprietors whose chief concern is to protect the endangered agrarian lifestyle their fathers and their father's fathers led before them. As the waves of modernization lap just beyond their rickety barbed-wirse fences, these proud and fiercely independent farmers--no longer safely nestled far from civilization in the sparsely-populated Mississippi hill country--turn to a savior, or at least a defender...
Officials are expected to order that the reservoir be drained after an environmental impact study is concluded. But the town's farmers are determined to fight such an order in the courts. Says Don Bones, president of the Citizens' Committee to Save the Littlerock Dam, Inc.: "Without water, Littlerock would revert to the desert it was 100 years ago. It would wither and die." It appears that Littlerock will be damned if the courts do approve drainage and dammed if they...