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Bard's report on the F.C.I.U., written for the Justice Department, will be distributed this month to law-enforcement and community health agencies all over the country. The effect may be far-reaching, since Bard has done nothing less than revise the role of the cop. He is challenging society's definition of the policeman as an intractable enemy, concerned mainly with making arrests when ordinary sinners overstep the stern line drawn by the law. The 30th Precinct's F.C.I.U. has been recommended by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders as an effective and exemplary instrument...
...father's drawer and ask for money on the street, some change sometimes. I used to get heroin from anywhere. I'd get it in my building, the next building, on the street corners. I got arrested with my friends. We were shooting up in the hallway, and a cop came along and busted...
...thereby far deeper in emotional effect. The boorishness of the second clown, which had always grated on the audience, here expresses the tension and guilt operating on the hero at the moment that the collision occurs. He accuses and reviles our bourgeois hero, generating a crowd and a cop, who tries to open the car trunk in which the hero has hidden a corpse. While this threat of exposure is specific, the situation is more significant as a direct metaphor for the hero's emotional state. People surround him pointing and shouting; the possibility of escape decreases with every second...
...vision of the players, is suddenly confronted with a questioning of its own perceptual powers: the deliberate half-illusion of Mark shooting a policeman. In fact, the gun isn't out of his boot when the shot is fired. Antonioni wanted to confirm that Mark would have killed the cop had someone not beat him to it: he is moral and we must not doubt the truth of Mark's denial of murder later in the picture. The timing of the shot is elusive enough to convince part of each audience (perhaps the part that blinked during the crucial...
...students continued their rock hurling. Police attempted unsuccessfully to break up unruly crowds, and from a hovering helicopter equipped with a loudspeaker ordered them to disperse. With only one known exception, the police kept their firearms bolstered, sometimes throwing rocks themselves when they ran out of tear gas. One cop was even photographed using a slingshot...