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Summer Coolers Shaft is a window-rattling thriller about a black private investigator named John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), who says "Right on" a lot and runs around in an endless variety of leather costumes making things hot for the bad guys. The film develops a good, affectionately edgy relationship between Shaft and a white cop, played by Charles
...There was no space uptown. Greenwich Village was already turning into the Skag Alley it now is, a tureen of thieving junkies and grimy plastic bars among the too-expensive brownstones. The East Village, with its tiny roach-filled apartments and manic adolescents shooting speed in the air shaft, was a dismal alternative. As for Brooklyn or Queens, one artist remarked: "You might as well work in Iowa...
Zindel's exploration of a deep, narrow shaft of his life recalls Henry David Thoreau's rejoinder to those who urged he broaden his perspective through travel: "I have traveled a good deal in Concord." Zindel says rightly that despite the psychologically crippled characters and lacerating tensions in Marigolds, it is an affirmation of life-the experimenting schoolgirl endures literally and symbolically, despite the emotional violence around her. Like her, Zindel has transcended his experience. Thoreau eventually went as far as Minnesota. For Zindel, Manhattan may be far enough; it is the inner distance that counts...
...mechanical wizard named Felix Wankel, the engine replaces conventional cylinders and pistons with a triangular rotor that revolves in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat figure eight. The spinning rotor not only controls the intake of gasoline and exhaust of burned gases, but turns the shaft that drives the wheels of the car. Thus Wankel engines have far fewer moving parts than piston engines. Moreover, they lack valves, rods, lifters, a camshaft and a crankshaft-elements that cause noise and vibration in piston engines...
...high structure would obliterate vistas and harm the city's still intimate scale. Dress Manufacturer Alvin Duskin took an ad to warn that San Francisco would soon be "like New York and Chicago, where life has all the joys of the bottom of an elevator shaft-a crowded elevator shaft where everybody has guns...