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...will not buckle to the forces of the Great Conspiracy. We will not countenance those who would disagree with our Vision. We will not fail to tame Interest Rates and their perpetrators. We will not fail to loosen the fetters of the repressed crude-oil Priviligentsia. We will not fail to meet the test...
Ludwig gives up on his project to tame the Amazon region
Pixote is one of the most powerful films ever made about poverty and oppression in Latin America. Its lack of overt moral commentary is more than compensated for by its stark, at times shocking, realism. Even the most graphic American films seem tame by comparison. Babenco uses scenes of crude abortion and vicious sodomy to capture the misery of an impoverished and overpopulated Third World metropolis. Filth, noise, chaos, this is Pixote's world: grim walls, dim light, inane pop music blaring in the background...
...find it amusing to think that Boston's Appleton Street, referred to in your story "Trying to Tame the Automobile [Oct. 12] can be subdued by speeds of 5 to 10 m.p.h. and that drivers will mind their manners. Boston drivers have been out of control for years. They are a national disgrace, and no measure short of mass arrest will ever make Appleton or any other Boston street safe...
...faced the University of Connecticut and lost, 4-2, for its first defeat of the season. Now the Princeton Tigers had arrived in town with their number-four national ranking, and the booters were being asked to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, step into center ring and tame the big cats from New Jersey...