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...when the judge granted a defense motion for a change of venue, on the grounds of harmful pretrial publicity, from Los Angeles County to neighboring and overwhelmingly white Ventura County. Before a jury of 10 whites, one Asian and one Hispanic, defense lawyers portrayed the accused policemen as the "thin blue line" between law-abiding citizens and the rebellious, intransigent forces embodied, so the argument implied, in Rodney King...
...documentary owes something to Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line. Like that brilliantly styled film, it returns repeatedly to the crime scene, reconstructing different versions of the murder. But for the most part, it is content to let a wide range of heads do a lot of talking about the brutal death of special agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams on June 26, 1975. At that time, the radical American Indian Movement was seeking to re-establish traditional tribal ways and to disestablish a tribal leadership it considered corrupt. Its opponents responded with terror squads, and between them...
...assigned to the reservation mainly for public relations reasons; he's one-quarter Sioux. And not proud of it. But the squalor of Pine Ridge touches him, as do the Native Americans, led by a tough, funny tribal policeman (Graham Greene) and a sly, funny shaman (Chief Ted Thin Elk). Slowly, but with powerfully accumulating dramatic effect, they put Levoi in touch with his Indian heritage. And with the truth about the murder he is there to investigate. It turns out to be similar to the situation projected in the documentary: there is an attempt to frame AIM members, with...
...Charybdis, mirror designers are charting a variety of bold, new courses. By designing the Keck Telescope mirror as a mosaic of small segments, each the size of a dining-room table, astronomer Jerry Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley was able to make his mirrors both rigid and thin. But to provide images of pinprick sharpness, each segment must be kept perfectly aligned with its neighbors, a task handled by an elaborate electronic network...
...contrast, the mirrors designed for the European Southern Observatory consist of a single, vast expanse of glass, thin (17.7 cm) and very flexible. To control wobbling and stabilize the orientation, these mirrors, like giant catcher's mitts, will be constantly readjusted by 180 computer-activated steel "fingers." A prototype mirror has already proved its worth. A flaw identical to the one that crippled the Hubble Space Telescope was easily corrected by adjusting the mirror's shape...