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...functional style of filming, one calculated to catch the moods of New York without being particularly ingenious, or at all artificial. The things Friedkin catches are as simple as the late-afternoon February sun, shining at a flat angle through the cold, dirty, Brooklyn air and glinting off the storefront windows along an avenue: a kind of photography that takes not so much technical virtuosity as the prescience to find the right moment and the competence to catch...
...have handled important suits against neighboring suburbs, claiming racial discrimination in housing. The school's transformation began in 1965 when the Michigan Supreme Court adopted a rule permitting law students to represent the indigent. With a $250,000 grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, Detroit opened a storefront legal clinic and urban-law courses began appearing in the catalogue...
Armed with $1,100 in savings and a vision of ending racial enmity by bringing white and black together, Coll pressed on. He rented a storefront office with a telephone. He gave his outfit a name with a resonantly contemporary ring: "The Revitalization Corps, America's Citizen Peace Corps." He dreamed up zingy program monikers like "Operation Amigo," and zealously advertised for volunteers. His guiding conviction was simple: "Most of the people in this country, black and white, want an integrated society...
...Pawnbroker, The Group), who has never shown a scintilla of genuine wit, aims for nothing less than political satire. Since Duke's parole, it seems, he has had no secrets that the cops do not know instantly. When he consults a black driver who lives above a Panther storefront, Duke's schemes are electronically processed. T-men tune in on his conversations with Angelo; even the apartment of Duke's mistress (Dyan Cannon) is tapped by a jealous lover. As the plans unfurl, the eavesdroppers are heavily lampooned. America, in a supposedly shattering revelation, is shown...
Tiefer quit his job, sank his resources into a Manhattan storefront and hired a designer to help his wife. Before Melissa Tiefer, now two, was born, the Lady Madonna Boutique was ready for opening-day ceremonies-which included a buffet of pickles and ice cream and an array of statuesque, round-bellied mannequins...