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...church." Some Negroes kept walking. The cops surged forward. Some Negroes ran, tried to take refuge in Mac's Cafe, about a block from the church. State troopers crashed in after them. One Negro, Jimmy Lee Jackson, made a break for the door, was shot in the stomach, taken to a hospital in critical condition. In all, more than a dozen Negroes, including six women, were treated for injuries...
...dozen years, Dr. Richard Doll, Britain's most famed physician-statistician, had been testing and comparing a dozen treatments for gastric ulcers (those in the stomach proper). Sadly he had concluded that no drugs helped an ulcer to heal, though peace of mind, bed rest and nonsmoking did some good. Then a drug company offered Dr. Doll something called carbenoxolone, which is a chemical modification of a substance extracted from licorice...
...corpsmen for Communist terrorists, shot out the tires on their station wagon when they ignored an order to stop, then fired point-blank when the Americans climbed out with their hands up, hitting Rupley in the heart and critically wounding David Glover, 25, of Grosse He, Mich., in the stomach...
...simple parking problem. But as the judge announces that General Concaro must park his car in his garage and stop using it as a storeroom, Concaro cries: "I protest!" The argument grows in volume; the general draws an automatic pistol. One court official drops, shot twice in the stomach and once in the leg. The court usher charges boldly, then sprawls dead with three methodically aimed bullets in him. The judge intervenes, only to slump in his robes, critically wounded by four slugs. Finally a policeman slips behind the general, cuts him down with a burst from his submachine...
...already expressed eloquently-and at immoderate length-in L'Avventura, La Notte and Eclipse. His is a world alive with the muffled cries of human beings struggling to live without resenting it, and to communicate with other survivors in prosperous, increasingly complex societies that fill the stomach but starve the spirit. Paradoxically, Red Desert fails as drama because Antonioni, with scrupulous care, makes places and things so much more interesting than his people that an audience cannot always tell the Christians from the lions. The film nonetheless fails magnificently, with a kaleidoscopic splash sure to alter the complexion...