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...TREAT A LADY. Adroitly blending bloody homicide and black comedy, this thriller pits a psyched-up killer with a closetful of disguises (Rod Steiger) against a callow New York cop (George Segal...
...have resulted in part from the white man's inchoate sense of guilt over King's death. It was abetted by the carnival air that pervaded the looting mobs ("Hell, I can't kill a kid running away with two sports coats," said a Chicago cop) and the unprecedented cooperation of many black leaders-moderate and militant-in helping police to pacify angry slum dwellers...
...most part, only the less adept or mobile were caught. Seeing police take a stance of calculated restraint, adults joined in the pillage. Often cops stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
...Help! The baby's mouth! It's getting dark. I don't know why. I don't know why. My baby sick. My baby sick." Dr. Johnston moved to a scene 16 days later, when a policeman came to her motel room. "It was a cop at the door. He say the baby died. The baby died. The baby died. I don't know what happened. The baby always clean. I always change and feed...
...survive such ludicrous lines as "This adultery is a lonely business, isn't it?" Commendably long on documentary detail about police procedure, Madigan is refreshingly short on sadism. Henry Fonda is at his uptight best as the up-from-the-ranks commissioner, so righteous that as a cop on the beat he sent back the butcher's Christmas turkey. Richard Widmark is engaging as the detective who lives "on the arm"-accepting all "police discounts." The skillful, dramatic use of Manhattan-indoors and out-should gladden the heart of Mayor John Lindsay and further his campaign...