Word: rizzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wrecking Ball. After a series of sexual skirmishes, Joe finds himself smack in the middle of the country he left: despair. As he wanders, he comes upon Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). A septic, crippled thief, Rizzo lives, like his nicknamesake, in the upper reaches of a condemned building, waiting for the wrecking ball. In a sense it has already arrived. Though he nourishes fantasies of a future in Miami, Ratso is too frail to last the winter. With a final galvanic reach for life, he extends a greasy hand -and Joe Buck takes...
...Lawyers, doctors and judges all police their own," says Philadelphia's Commissioner Frank Rizzo. "Why does it have to be the policeman who is second-guessed? I don't enjoy being quarterbacked by nonprofessionals." Philadelphia, ironically, had a civilian review board for nearly ten years, examining more than 700 complaints and proving to the satisfaction of most outsiders that the concept does work. The police guild, however, succeeded in killing it in court last year...
Then there is the artifice of diffusion, that lively apologist for lives as well as works. Peggy Rizzo, who is quite talented, still managers to leave her "Three Studies from the Bridge" in a confusion, fine passages ("rain loosening from the leaves," "thoughts neved and birthed in the flesh of words") tumble together with passages buoyed by neither wisdom nor sound (I moved to dreams unpeopled, but birded"). There exists then no poem but only favored portions; there is no totality to like or dislike, certainly none to analyze. Something is perversely appealing about this nonchalance, for too often here...
...been in Tel Aviv during the six-day Arab-Israeli war last June; later he appeared in Rome when Philadelphia's Archbishop John Joseph Krol was installed as cardinal, thereby gaining overnight a statesmanlike image. At home, Big Jim threw his wholehearted support behind Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo's tough antiriot policies, thus winning the support of Philadelphia's working-class Italian population. Since the city suffered no riots last summer, Tate also kept a grip on the predominantly Democratic Negro voting bloc, 226,000 strong. Many of Philly's Negroes are city employees who appreciate...
...DORIS M. Rizzo Leamington Spa, England...