Word: roi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frenzy. The French began experimenting with ozonization at the turn of the century, but they were long held back by the high cost of producing ozone. In 1968, however, when the Compagnie Generale des Eaux opened a highly automated $27.5 million plant in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi, it proved that a sizable city could afford ozone treatment...
...moved discreetly. He has equalized his force at six blacks and six whites, besides himself, and intends to maintain a balance. Integrated pairs usually man patrol cars. "Now blacks and whites make arrests together, so there's no favoritism," he says, puffing on one of his ever-present Roi-Tan cigars. Wyche and his black cops have not hesitated to arrest whites, and there has been no trouble so far. Several weeks ago, Wyche calmly rode out a potentially disruptive anti-integration demonstration by white students. He ordered his men not to interfere, and the protest remained peaceful...
...Power. It is a series of episodes unified by three basic threads. The first is, of course, the Rolling Stones slowly working out the song from which the movie takes its name. At the same time a group of blacks are in a London junk-yard, reading from Le Roi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver while they periodically machine-gun obsequious white women wearing virginal white gowns. The third thread is a hilarious pornographic narrative spoken throughout the movie in clipped, unemotional tones...