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...begins off the coast of mid-19th-century New York, swoops through parks and over avenues, and sneaks into an old brownstone where, in an upstairs bedroom, a woman dies while giving birth. Sustained opening shots can be empty gimmicks (anyone see The Bird-cage?), but Jerzy Zielinski's vivid camera-work shifts moods so subtly in each new context that, within minutes, the various textures of Old New York--from public pageantry to private grief--are established...
...that and more are in A Child's Night Dream, an autobiographical fantasy written in 1966-67. The book's Oliver follows the road of Stone's busy young life and often guns into the overdrive of desire (a meeting with Julie Christie) and horror (vivid images of a war he had not yet fought in). With punch-drunk punctuation and verbs-a-poppin' prose, Stone imitates Joyce, Kerouac, Mailer...
...Washington Post's Bob Woodward has had some big scoops). Concedes Lelyveld: "We were too slow off the mark." Its big, serioso reporting projects are sometimes lumbering: a seven-part series in March of 1996 on middle-class people who had been downsized out of a job was vivid and affecting but late; it came out just as economic statistics were highlighting job growth, not downsizing...
...events. We know what we think of child molesters, and we are aware of the dread consequences of their acts. On this matter we require no instruction. But a cracked old man, misjudging his powers and the nature of his children? Why yes, we can be moved to vivid identification with him, to pity and terror by his plight. Him we might someday become...
This wouldn't happen if some cops didn't believe they had a mandate for such behavior. Even though the rate of serious crime in the U.S. has fallen to levels not seen since the early 1970s, public fear of crime has reached an apex. TV transmits vivid pictures of actual violence into the nation's living rooms on a daily basis in more and more graphic detail. Politicians respond to the mounting public fear with declarations of war on drugs and crime that resonate with voters, from presidential to local elections. They also play well to the police culture...