Word: auction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eugene Coon has been a sheriff for twelve years, but for the first time in his career, he has refused to uphold the law. When 43 owner-occupied homes were to be auctioned last week in Alleghe ny County, Pa., because of delinquent mortgage and tax payments, Coon, who runs the monthly auction, stopped the sale. Said the four-term sheriff: "These are good people who have paid into their homes for years and years. I feel I'm on good legal ground in trying to help those who can't help themselves...
...point: their outrage at the Government's handling of the chemical-pollution scare. Said 30-year Resident Evelyn Zufall: "They should have known more before they came to us and disrupted our lives." The townsfolk seem dubious about Government promises. Said Leonard Massey, organizer of an auction to raise funds for residents: "Do it yourself. Don't let the Government...
...money and speak our language. There are few recorded instances in history of governments, any government, actually getting out of debt. Countries do not fail to exist." The rescheduling of Mexico and Brazil's debts, Wriston suggests, is not unlike the U.S. Government's weekly Treasury bill auction: both raise new loans to replace old borrowings...
...psychiatrist. His Dr. Rice is not the self-assured Freudian father figure who sits comfortably back in his chair, doodling on a pad of paper. Instead, Scheider often seems just as unsure of himself as any patient. In one sequence, Rice steals Brooke's keys and sneaks through the auction house where she works, in an attempt to search her desk for evidence. Suddenly, he stops and says aloud. "This is dumb." The abruptness of the self-deprecating remark underscores his ambivalent feelings: While Dr. Rice the shrink recognizes an element of the ridiculous in his decision to play detective...
...CAMERA STALKS Scheider as he makes his way through the artifacts of the auction house--as if does throughout most of the film. But unlike in more conventional thrillers, this technique is not intended to identify the camera's eye with the murderer's. It represents instead Rice's own attempts to follow his instincts, to rediscover his identity. The sequence pulsates with a natural suspense not found in many film thrillers. The audience doesn't expect to see the killer burst through the door, as might happen in a more contrived film, but Rice's personal tension and psychological...