Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some candidates hired drummers to precede them and attract crowds; others leased elephants or rode about on camels. The fakir who last year tried to walk on water and sank is running for Parliament "by order of God." India...
...battery of tests-for the top post that pitted him against Inspector James G. Fisk, the department's articulate chief of community relations. Fisk had toiled to heal the wounds of Watts, sending white-Negro police teams into ghetto schools, running workshops for gang members, assigning patrolmen to walk around meeting people and "dispel stereotypes." On the test scores, Fisk beat Reddin by a hairline half of 1%. The city's five police commissioners nonetheless picked Reddin for his overall depth and breadth. As deputy chief, Fisk will expand his community-building efforts...
Chief Reddin ranks his priorities as "crime in the streets," community relations and better recruitment. He aims to walk a "terrible tightrope" between "hard-nosed" policing and understanding. He thinks science and systematization should take over routine jobs, leaving "more time to talk to people." Minority groups are only some of the people he means. Last year crime dropped (by 3.8%) in only one Los Angeles area: the predominantly Negro Newton Street division. By contrast, serious crime jumped 32% in the white, prosperous West Valley division. If the L.A. department is now doing something right in "bad" areas, Reddin must...
...roll sequence seems purposeless and overly self-conscious. Antonioni's best editing is found in the sequences with dramatic purpose and direction: the blow-up sequence and the discovery of the corpse. Both deal with extended action--a lengthy process of printing and examining photo enlargements, and a long walk through a park--and Antonioni must use editing as a time-compressor, simulating the length of the event through montage, though actually presenting it in a much shorter period of time. This forces him to be economic, to use editing to convey the scene content. He succeeds admirably; the blow...
...walking: "In order to preserve the beauty of the college grounds and adjacent properties, members of the college community are requested to walk on paths, not on the grass especially in the spring, and are not permitted to gather flowers or branches...