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This is one of Mississippi Burning's two main fictional conceits: that the FBI broke the case in part by locating not the fear and greed of a Klan informant, but the flinty, vindictive soul of Southern integrity. The other conceit is as low-road as the plot twist in a kung fu scuzzathon. The film imagines that the FBI imported a free-lance black operative to terrorize the town's mayor into revealing the murderers' names. Taken (like much else in the picture) from a report in William Bradford Huie's 1965 casebook, Three Lives for Mississippi, the scene...
...pictures, Hackman rates six as really good: Bonnie and Clyde (Buck Barrow, Clyde's elder brother), The French Connection (an Oscar as New York cop Popeye Doyle), Scarecrow (on the road with Al Pacino), The Conversation (Francis Coppola's study of a lonely surveillance expert), Under Fire (as a TIME correspondent in Nicaragua) and Mississippi Burning. His FBI agent bears traces of early Hackmen. Anderson, like Buck Barrow, repeats favorite anecdotes and plays dumber than he is; like Popeye, he wears stumpy ties and catches bad guys on his own obsessive terms. And at the end of each sentence...
None of this is lost on Kennebunkport's 4,500 natives. Many ponder their future at Alisson's Restaurant, where fresh rumors mingle daily with the clam chowder. Someone murmurs that the Secret Service will close Ocean Avenue, the road that runs past the Bush compound on Walker's Point, for security reasons. "If they do that, the cars will back up all the way to Wells," moans Rick Griffin, owner of the Kennebunkport Inn, envisioning a traffic jam stretching to a town seven miles away...
Teachers involved in the program, which aims ultimately to reach half a million students, spend about a month at the astrophysics center learning the fundamentals of the STAR approach. They are taught that the road to enlightenment lies in the third dimension. "To convert from three dimensions to two and back to three again leads to special reasoning ability," says project director Philip Sadler...
...like any aging vehicle taken to its limits, the recovery is now prone to overheating or breaking down. And the road ahead is not going to get easier anytime soon. In a TIME survey of ten economists in the U.S. and several others in Japan and Europe, a consensus emerged that the economy's speedy growth is, paradoxically, one of its biggest problems. The aging recovery has a reduced tolerance for rapid expansion because it is straining against shortages of workers and factory capacity. Many economists fear those limitations could impose renewed inflationary pressures, forcing the Federal Reserve to tighten...