Word: shops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stirs reformist impulses in them, and it is their contrary feelings that provide the film's human interest and dramatic suspense. Finally, there is hell to pay. Kotto, playing a sometime small-time criminal, is murdered in a particularly grueling way. The union buys off Pryor with a shop steward's job. Keitel finally turns FBI stoolie. In short, their venture into crime and/or conscience, as one could predict from their earlier lives, ends with our heroes getting, as they would surely put it, screwed again. Indeed, at the film's close the two survivors have lost...
...cuts to the famous Monty Python dead parrot skit. This sequence reveals the fundamental problem with the movie at the very outset. The group's first full-length motion picture, And Now For Something Completely Different, included this skit, complete with props and the suitable atmosphere of a pet shop. Seeing this skit performed again on the bare stage of a London auditorium leaves you flat; watching a grown man repeatedly slam a stuffed parrot against a desk to prove its deceased state ceases to be funny after a while. The same can be said for the movie's closing...
Byrd graduated at the top of his high school class of 30, but the Depression made college only a dream. It took him one year to find a job as a gas station attendant; then he switched to cutting meat in a shop closer to home for $12.50 a week. Byrd studied a butcher's manual, honing skills he had already picked up tending his family's hogs. He recalls the details: "I shot them, stabbed them, cut their throats, hung them up, cut them open, rolled out the insides, cleaned them...
Thousands of civilians had to be evacuated from Viet Nam border settlements to safer places. One of the evacuees was Nguyen Him Oanh, 26, who decided to keep on moving and finally escaped to Bangkok. "We had to give up our cloth and spice shop and move along the road east," she reported. "Then we had to dig bunkers and bomb shelters. Every day I saw Vietnamese soldiers going toward the border in trucks, with tanks and artillery. Just before I escaped, I saw the bodies of 20 Khmer Rouge laid out along the road. Our soldiers put them there...
...eccentric and frugal existence, pocketing desserts he could not finish on airplane flights and picking up discarded soft drink bottles to turn in for their deposits. During the last few years, he lived in a modest two-bedroom apartment and conducted much of his business from a local coffee shop...