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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graham Parks Achievement School, (formerly Webster), Upton St. 5 3 Morse School, Granite St. 5 4 Morse School, Granite St. 5 5 Fire House, River St. and Kelly Rd. 6 1 Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, main entrance 6 2 Gund Hall, (Harvard Design School), 48 Quincy St., Rm. 112 6 3 Fire House, Broadway entry...
Film Seminar on "The Killing Fields," Rm. 277, Science Center, Wellesley College...
...Rm 13 staff, Houghton Library Cataloger's assistant. Private Infant Care, Kirkland House Production--GodspellNews staff--Independent...
...world. This repetition seems out of character with the action pace of the film: more at home with the bogus psychological exploitation of Pink Floyd's The Wall than Orwell. Especially pretentious is the final shot of this sequence, where we learn that this mythical "Green Acres" lies in Rm, 101, the room of everyone's worst fear. Mixing symbols like this might work for a Bergman, but it has failed almost everybody else, including, now, Radford...
Thus summarized, The Safety Net sounds like Dallas auf Deutsch. But Böll has the technical skills to lighten weighty social themes. His best narrrative trick is to keep the public Stürm und Drang at bay and focus on the private lives laid bare by pervasive surveillance. Suspense takes a back seat. Somewhere, hazily defined terrorists are poised to punish Tolm for his real and imagined sins of omission. Will the assault be by cake bomb, a flight of mechanical birds stuffed with explosives or a mysterious boy with a "bomb in his head"? Who will attempt...