Word: sidewalkers
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...apathy among the wealthy burghers and self-disrespect among individual politicians. "No longer an esteemed benefactor, and not yet a respected public servant, the politician, in the eyes of all too many citizens of Massachusetts, is a mere errand boy, remembered only when there is a ticket or a sidewalk to be fixed...
Hours before curtain time, 10,000 people pressed behind police lines to watch the first-night show; many lingered till midnight at their sidewalk stations, peeping through the glass sides of the block-long building as the crowd inside washed down cookies with Rhineland champagne. A fleet of taxis and Mercedes limousines flowed onto Bismarckstrasse, off RichardWagner-Platz, to deliver the cream of West Berlin society, the entire West Berlin Senate, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, Federal President Heinrich Lübke, retired U.S. General Lucius Clay, and 21 assorted ambassadors up from Bonn for the occasion...
...Sidewalk in Mala Polana. A former bank teller, Andrica began his curious career in 1926, when he convinced the Press that it was missing a bet by ignoring Cleveland's immigrant population (then 65%). Andrica proved his point. Roving and reporting the city's European enclaves-the Italian colony on Mayfield Road, the Slovenes along St. Clair Avenue-Andrica watched with satisfaction as the walls of suspicion crumbled between nationalities. By 1932, when Andrica proposed that Editor Louis B. Seltzer send him abroad to look for relatives of Cleveland's foreign-born, the editor was only...
...name and address of the uncle, the cousin or the grandmother they want Andrica to talk to. The response runs into the thousands, and Andrica always finds plenty of people to visit. On a trip to Mala Polana, Czechoslovakia, Andrica heard about a villager who possessed the only concrete sidewalk in town, discovered an ex-Clevelander. Andrica seems in no danger of exhausting his material: in a single Yugoslavian province, Voivodina, live some 3,500 farmers and villagers with Cleveland connections...
...like an undergraduate who has got drunk on The Alexandria Quartet: "The film is about the reality which is made up of the appearances of reality," he has said. "You don't know if it is present, past, or even future." But he is much more than a sidewalk spieler. He is a grounded artist, seeking new ways to find what he has called "the mass audience which is weary of explanatory scenes, dialogue whose sole purpose is 'to keep the action going,' and the all too obvious sequence of shots 'logically' strung together...