Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Violent crime has been fearfully persuasive throughout American history, and particularly in recent times. Between 1960 and 1976, the chance of being the victim of a major violent crime nearly tripled. Over three in every 100 Americans will be a victim this year. The elderly, with good reason, would rather go hungry than go out to the local Finast at night...
...more than a function of youth or poverty, crime, and particularly violent crime, is perceived as a function of race. What most urban dwellers have intuited can be statistically shown--black people account for a disproportionate amount of violent street crime. Were it only a result of the crippling poverty that keeps 31 per cent of American blacks below the Federal subsistence level, crime statistics would correlate; yet, although in 1976 blacks accounted for 31 per cent of property crimes (such as burglary), they commited 60 per cent of the robberies, 40 per cent of the aggravated assaults, and about...
...think racially. It's my belief that until something is done that actually costs the United States, something that proves that the U.S. is not kidding around, the South African government will see no reason to change at all. The only things I can see that are non-violent, and that would constitute a strong pressure, are withdrawal of investment and loan money from South Africa, and recall of the ambassador. It will take something fairly dramatic, like withdrawal of economic and diplomatic support, to get it through to them, finally, that they either have to start negotiating with black...
...long review that Mr. Contreras finally refers, as an afterthought, to what is a major (if not the major) theme underlying the movie: A hatred of the Turkish nation so blatant that it borders on racism. Throughout the film, the audience is treated to a sequence of violent and disturbing scenes where the Turks feature heavily as a nation of brutes and loonies. So stark is this characterization that one waits in vain for the appearance of at least one half-decent Turk...
...nightmarish one. How else can one explain the wholesale brutality of the Turkish characters, the unreal prison conditions, and the imaginary arbitrariness of the Turkish judicial system, not to mention Billy Hayes' unbelievably easy escape? Not one technique is spared to impress on the audience the repulsiveness of Turkey. Violent scenes are accompanied by Turkish folk music as if to show the necessary relationship between the two. Even the normally beautiful Istanbul skyline is transformed by the camera into somber and gloomy scenery--a feat in itself...