Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This tension takes its toll on Serpico's personal life. He loses one girlfriend, then another; he is friendless on the job. His isolation and paranoia increase as he is left alone and brooding, and he buys a bigger and better gun to defend himself with. By the time he is finally shot, he seems near madness from the accumulated pressure...
...toll taken by the deprivations of lower-class life is conveyed in more subtle ways, through the grave note in an old man's voice, through the stark interior of a working man's kitchen, through the whiskered, burnt faces of workers discussing politics in a bar. Even Barrera's face seems to change with the chronological shifts in the movie, from the full-boned, clean-shaven, clear-eyed vigor of his revolutionary days to the meticulously-combed, vainly-mustachioed, narrow-eyed shiftiness of his union leadership. Such details help the film to capture a mood of quiet despair...
Lucia is the second film from revolutionary Cuba to reach Cambridge recently, and that in itself makes it interesting. Pardoning some melodrama, this is a beautiful film about that country's blossoming through the centuries, and the toll taken by history on Cuban women. It will be at the Orson Welles for some time to come...
...while. Indian authorities report that the current epidemic, which began last January, has so far stricken more than 100,000 and claimed 16,000 lives. The World Health Organization, which figures that as many as one out of every five afflicted by the disease will die, estimates the toll at more than...
...Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within...