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...this style; a tourist can only let the impressions reflect and magnify in the back of his mind's eye. Is something special in the way children congregate around the big tree and roller skate on only one foot? Is something special when they swing their arms downward and slap spinning wooden tops at one's feet? Is something special in the perpetual squabbling of the basket weaver and the mad woman who clutches her groin when strangers pass by? Is something special in the white fisherman who speaks with pride of his people (old Tories) and shares his catch...
...took over and absented himself frequently to attend to other matters, the club turned against him too. Byrd, as secretary of the Democratic Conference, carried much of Kennedy's load. Thus there was at least a half-truth in Byrd's kindly explanation that "this was not a slap at Kennedy?it was an affirmation of the job I had been doing...
...Cigarettes. Smoke-belching vehicles are stopped by policemen who slap drivers with a court summons on the spot. Drivers with noisy exhausts or "musical" horns can be fined up to $333-the equivalent of a year's wages for many laborers-or sentenced to three months in jail. Just tossing a cigarette butt on the street can bring a $166 fine. Now Prime Minister Lee has permanently closed Raffles Place. Singapore's Fifth Avenue, to most vehicular traffic. He is also phasing out vendors' stalls, which will doubtless improve sanitation, but will also deprive the city...
...Parish Prson, a putrid pen built in 1929 to hold 400 prisoners. It now contains 850?75% of them unsentenced. Money and guards are so short that violent inmates prey on the weak; many four-bunk cells hold seven inmates, mattresses smell of filth and toilets are clogged. Prisoners slap at cockroaches "so big you can almost ride them...
...screenplay. It seems more likely that he is a technician in search of a creative imagination. His visuals in riverrun are on no higher a level of achievement than the plot-in a narrative film, how could they be? Korty's editing and camerawork go in either for slap-happy pastoral or flash-backing exposition. There are only a few instances when writer-director-photographer Korty shows any flair for metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile...