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...increasingly came to depend on the city's expanding trucking industry for its livelihood. Huge trucks began rumbling through the neighborhood, noisily disrupting games of street hockey. The neighborhood waged a bitter twelve-year battle to force the city to confine trucks to a single route that would skirt its residential streets. Though Southie eventually won, the law is only fitfully enforced, and youngsters still dodge giant semitrailers...
...proboscidate Persian who whirled Lee round the dance floor ("The only thing I could see in the whole room was his nose"), while Jackie waltzed with the sexy purser. And final indignity, at a Paris soiree Lee felt her underclothes slip to the floor under her long skirt even as she shook hands with an ambassador...
...most striking scene in the movie does at deal with Barrera at all, but rather with a middle-aged couple walking down a narrow street gray with afternoon shadows cast by deteriorating tenement houses. The wife has long sagging brown hair and dark tired eyes. She wears a beaten skirt and a plain white blouse. The husband, his paunch hanging over his belt, talks with a gusto that tries to hide the hardships so apparent in the lines of his face. He waits outside as his wife enters a factory for a job interview. Inside a doctor's office...
...winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms-the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example...
...with the constant expectation of something more subtly strange, the ever-present possibility that some grazing sleight of hand will tamper with reality just enough to dip the action into a world of dreams. When Tristana climbs the bell-tower, with the deaf boy behind and looking up her skirt, she comes upon the bloodied, severed head of the gentleman, swinging crazily from the church bell. And the vision delicately propels--we go on, as viewers never picked up running by the nape of the neck to churn legs wildly in the air. Shot in 1970, in color...