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...questions: precisely what happened at Attica and why, what the alternatives were for the inmates and the authorities, and what Attica will mean for the future of prison reform. Our coverage was supervised by New York Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, and the reporting from Attica was done by a trio of correspondents. James Willwerth went to the prison when the uprising started. Having covered the Newark riots, been gassed at the 1968 Chicago disorders and spent a year in South Viet Nam and Cambodia, Willwerth is hardly a stranger to violence. He saw the assault on Attica as "a classic...
Although the trio constitute most of the film, Schlesinger has not slighted even the smallest subordinate role. A 53-year-old hence unemployable businessman (Tony Britton) is a character worthy of a tragedy all to himself. In a single scene, Peggy Ashcroft as Alex's mother furnishes her daughter with an almost schizophrenic past...
...three partners hope to franchise ticker-equipped restaurants patterned after the Exchange. When the trio first asked the New York Stock Exchange to let them have a barroom ticker installed, they were turned down because they wanted instantaneous quotes, and the Big Board restricts that service to brokers or people whose principal business is investment. Eventually the partners agreed that stock prices would appear 15 minutes behind brokerage-house tickers, as they do on television. The time lag has not stopped some customers from trading at the bar over the free telephones provided by the house...
...annoyed mothers and teachers are aware, knuckle joints can be made to crack. What no one has fully understood is why. Some have speculated that the noise is caused by the snapping of bone against bone, or by the movement of tendons over bony projections within the joint. A trio of British researchers has now solved this minor medical mystery. According to Anthony Unsworth, Duncan Dowson and Verna Wright of the University of Leeds, knuckle noise results from the explosion of gas bubbles in the synovial fluid that fills the joint...
...trio of compulsive polyglots, Samuel Beckett (equally fluent in English and French), Vladimir Nabokov (a writer in Russian, English, French and possibly German) and Jorge Luis Borges (whose first work at seven was an English summary of Greek myths) are the men whom Steiner judges to be "the three figures of probable genius in contemporary fiction." Joyce teaching at his Berlitz school he takes as the prototypical modern artist, master of the "lost center." a practitioner of the "literature of exile...