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Travis Bickle cruises this Pandemonium like an animal trying to unwind. He is an underground man for America, condemned to try to live a quiet life in enemy territory. But things won't leave him alone. Ther's no relief from the loneliness and frustration; The city never lets him off the hook. The world is a no-parking zone. All that remains is relentless movement, ugly rooms, ugly people, and dirty minds. No compassion. No grace. It just keeps coming. There's no pressure drop, no possible release. Spoken language is foreign to Bickle, and when he gets...
...papers don't promise any excitement. Ther are no big movies opening. No music worth travelling to. A night for improv. They decide to start with Rebel Without A Cause because the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater has never seen it yet somehow feels like he ought...
Nixon declines to comment about the new revelations. He is protected from fur ther prosecution for any crimes committed during his presidency by President Ford's full pardon in 1974. Haldeman, now living in California, said, "I really don't care what's on the tapes. They're ten years old." But the former President's lawyers, in their continuing effort to keep the 4,000 hours of unreleased Nixon tapes private, may raise a ruckus over how the newly disclosed transcript found its way into the Times. Hersh, who is writing a book about...
...Indian Guides and distinguished himself in grammar-school sports. Recalls Jim Francis, John's basketball coach for three years during elementary school: "He was a beautiful-looking little boy, a wonderful athlete, really a leader. He was the best basketball player on the team." No wonder the fa ther of such a child, told years later that his son was being held as an assassin, would scowl in disbelief...
...Chicago school system. He turned it down. No wonder. The nation's third largest school system, with 458,000 students, is racked by money problems. It will close ten schools this month, and a third of the extracurricular programs have been canceled. Unless fur ther budget cuts are made, the system faces a projected $46 million deficit. Convinced that no outsider could cope with Chicago politics, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with the five black members of the city's eleven-member school board, pressed for the appointment of Chicago's veteran deputy superintendent, Manford Byrd...