Word: rioting
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...imagine there being a riot," says Johnston. "There wasn't anything to demonstrate against." Even not being allowed to use Lamont, then a new building that seemed to Radcliffe students. Pinck remembers, like the Garden of Eden, wasn't considered at the time to be anything to demonstrate against. "It didn't occur to anybody to feel excluded from anything," Johnston says. No one can remember any tradition of feminism that might have been associated with a women's college, or any trace of solidarity as women in a male atmosphere. "There was no sense of being interested...
Luanda Angois--One week before the ship anchored in Luanda harbor, the city had convulsed in its second summer riot which left over a hundred people dead. From the ship you could see the black smudge in Luanda's tin-and-plywood suburban shack jungle that used to be four blocks of homes. Everywhere you went in Luanda there were jeeps, carrying soldiers, carrying guns. Portugal had been fighting a guerilla war since 1961 in Angola, a Portuguese colony since the 1500's. That war had one good result: the young Portuguese soldiers sent to Angola came back disgusted...
...wants to get on canvas and call The Burning of Los Angeles. It is good to know this in advance, for although Schlesinger shows Hackett making sketches and studying faces, it is never clear just what he is working on. The film, like the book, ends with a riot at a movie premiere. Before Hackett's eyes, the scene becomes the painting. Since we do not know much about the painting, or about its meaning to Hackett, this tends to make the whole climax superfluous...
...after something else. All through the movie he has inserted references to the coming crisis in Europe: headlines in the newspapers and newsreels of Hitler tell of war. But such hints are not especially well integrated; their necessity is questionable-until the premiere, when Schlesinger turns the riot into World...
...premiere is made up to look like Hitler, and his excitement drives the crowd to greater excesses of violence. It moves like a marauding army. Not only are people trampled and windows broken, but fires start, telephone poles fall, and Hollywood Boulevard seems to shake. West's modest riot was more effective than Schlesinger's whole set piece. But this silly cameo of World War II is perfectly in order for a movie so far out of control...