Word: underworlds
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...going back to the land, through religion, are nearly as moving as "I Went to See the Gypsy," which is about the frightening involvement with life that his earlier songs described so brilliantly. It is about an ambiguous encounter with a big-name Las Vegas hustler, a sort of underworld angle, who presents Dylan with salvation and then disappears. Musically, it is a slow rock piece which sounds close to "Blonde on Blonde." At the end, when Dylan decides to accept the Gypsy's offer, it is too late, and the listener, although only half-understanding, feels his loss deeply...
Adapted from A Hall of Mirrors, a slice of underworld life by Novelist Robert Stone, WUSA is a wayward attempt to chart the depredations of right-wing forces in America. The film, produced by Newman, patently reflects the political views held by him and his wife Joanne. Their social awareness is admirable, but it has led their moviemaking astray. As two of the screen's most talented artists, they could have brought strength to Stone's closely stitched characters. Instead, personality and plot are overridden by politics...
...basic departure in radical tactics. Fire-bombing banks and other capitalist institutions to tear down the Establishment is one thing; robbing them to finance the cause is something else again. At the very least, the Brighton job seems to have been the work of a strange alliance of underworld and radical academe...
...Vegas again, "he must come downtown and get a work permit." District Attorney George Franklin Jr. added: "Now I'd like to have a little talk with Mr. Sinatra. I'd like to get together with him on the subject of his friendships with members of the underworld...
...moment. An American sleeping potion administered to a guard fails to work in time. Months are spent in building a raft, piece by piece and then storing it in a grave, only to have a fellow prisoner squeal. But Papillon still has money, left from more than 10,000 underworld francs that he put in a plan, a small, polished, waterproof metal tube, harbored in his lower intestine. Papillon is also stirred by dreams of revenge as well as a longing to go straight and start a new life. Sent to solitary for two years, he performs a prison miracle...