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...most recent Harris Poll, 60% of the population has expressed the opinion that there must have been a conspiracy to murder the civil rights leader. Prompted by the revelation that the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had conducted a vicious vendetta to discredit King, the Justice Department is probing both the FBI's harassment of him and its investigation of his death...
...mentality of the Italian bourgeoisie, a select elite who received a traditional education in a fascistic system and are now confronted with the demands of the proletariat for a decent life. Pasolini was a leftist even though his older brother was killed by a leftist group in a vicious slaughter--which turned out to be a tragic mistake. He supported the PCI despite the fact that they tried to disown him when his homosexuality first became known, only to reclaim him again when "Ragazzi di Vita made him famous...
...melodrama all this is acceptable, though extended for two and a half hours somewhat tiresome. As a film with a message, this is pernicious bullshit. Nurse Ratched's vicious attack on Billy is completely out of character. Nothing in the film up to this point has suggested that her chief purpose is to keep patients under her domination and not to help them. Or are we supposed to take her preference for order over chaos, for cleanliness over filth, as the real prelude to such a cruel act? Her chief role has been to protect the weaker members...
...Vicious Traps. A favorite I.R.A. tactic is to put gelignite into a milk churn, then stand it by the roadside among dozens of other containers that farmers put out at night to be collected by the dairies. When an army patrol passes by, the terrorists detonate the churn by remote control. Other I.R.A. traps are just as viciously clever. A month ago, two Ulster policemen were lured by a false report into an isolated area, where they were ambushed and killed...
...Vicious sibling rivalry. While Good Sister Vanessa searches for human dignity with Bad Meg's ex-husband, Meg competes with her daughter for a lover...