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...these lousy kids come in from outside and spoil the market," said Avery, an expensively groomed seller and an avid reader of science fiction. "The new cats burn (cheat) everybody," added his girlfriend, Stinger, in the suitable Hippese...
AVERY lives in an apartment somewhere with Stinger, but nobody knows where it is. It's safer that way. He wants to leave the business, though, and open a small jewelry store somewhere in Boston, because he hates the violence a dealer might possibly meet. Most of the hippies who sell drugs arm themselves with guns or knives, Avery said, although street fights are rare. He himself carries only a small silver cigar-like vial of tear gas that operates like a pistol...
Symbolic of Boston woes is the starting pitcher in the season's opener against Detroit later this week. Not Lonnie, not Stinger Stange, not Gary Bell, not anyone who played for the 1967 dream team. Dick Ellsworth will defend the flag; he's a National League refugee with a well-earned reputation for ineffectiveness...
...latest, and critically most successful, picture is In the Heat of the Night, which presents Rod Stinger as a lonely Southern sheriff and Sidney Poitier as a homicide expert from up North. At the movie's start, Poi tier is passing through a small Mississippi town when Stinger's deputy mistakenly charges him with murder. Poi tier dramatically reveals his identity as a police officer (to a mixture of catcalls and enthusiastic screams from the audience). and eventually shows Steiger how to solve a murder...
...screen, and several critical links to the murder's solution are left unexplained. Apparently realizing this, Jewison has defended the picture's weakness as a melodrama by saying, in effect, that it isn't one. He suggests that the real subject matter is the relationship between Poi tier and Stinger, and that the loose construction of the mystery throws proper emphasis onto that relationship. As long as this argument wasn't devised after the picture's completion, one can assume that Jewison and screen writer Skirling Silliphant were trying to use the elements of a mystery much as Antonioni...