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...casual musicians stopped in mid-scatter and formed a word. They played a few bars of a song. Bang. They scattered into another word. Another few bars. Bang. They scattered again and ran back into the stands. "Is that it?" Trevor asked in disbelief. "Yeah, wasn't it great?" Trevor didn't answer. He sighed. He evidently didn't think...
...pusher, in order to enable him to act on his first plan--simply to sell enough and get out. With his more cynical partner Eddie, Priest goes to the old friend who got him started on the trade and is now himself retired, running a swank Harlem night spot. Scatter is not flustered by Eddie's strong-arm tactics, nor after minutes of consideration is he at all enamored of the idea, which places more risks on his current security than he would like to take. Then Fly turns on the old man, berates him for taking the fatherly responsibility...
...acting is erratic. Ron O'Neal is a handsome man with a commanding presence, but his moments of indecision are more blank than tortured. Julius W. Harris as Scatter acts earnest in his easy part. But Carl Lee, as Eddie, earns unqualified approval. With a lean and scowling face and a voice which grates with nurtured agony, his measured walk and languid vocals convince us immediately. When he says that the cocaine trade was the only route open to a bright young black like him, we believe...
Blacks? Chicanos? Women's Liberationists? Nope. Old folks. The latest protest group making waves is a doughty band called the Gray Panthers, founded in Philadelphia by a curt, spry lady named Margaret Kuhn, 67, who definitely does not weave scatter rugs or play shuffleboard. She and five chums, all retired church workers of different denominations, set up headquarters in Philadelphia's Tabernacle Church last year. Their basic goals: to develop a new life-style and a new base for the elderly...
...Scatter-site housing is almost as thorny a problem as busing. The antagonists are principally the same: whites protecting their hard-won privileges v. blacks trying to break out of the ghetto. In a bizarre twist of principle, a group of Chicagoans has brought suit in U.S. district court to prevent proposed housing projects from "polluting" their neighborhoods. Their legal foundation: the National Environmental Policy...