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Bertolucci breaks up the chronological flow of the narrative, preferring to let images and scenes occur to the audience more or less as they do to Marcello. A flash forward near the film's end puts Marcello in the last night of Mussolini's regime, wandering the streets in confusion. He overhears two homosexuals flirting and turns to confront the chauffeur he thought he had murdered. But the only thing Marcello had really murdered was an accurate memory of the incident. There was no killing. The last scene finds him confronting his nature for the first time...
ROBBERY runs are the bread and butter of good police work. Your first challenge is to elicit the facts and a description of the culprits as rapidly as possible, then to flash the information over the radio, and finally to launch a search. Since the closure rate is fairly high when lookouts are flashed within two or three minutes of a crime, and increasingly low there after, speed is of the essence. Just as important, you have to apply some intelligence to the question of where a robber would be likely to flee. Even with speed and intelligence, the overwhelming...
After a hundred or more vain searches in my first year as a policeman (I made my share of arrests, but none on flash lookouts), I ran into two Marines last month who had just been robbed, and began to question them. They eventually came up with a mediocre description of two of the subjects who had robbed them, and a first-rate description of the third. So I went off with another officer who, like myself, was riding a motor scooter, and cruised the area. And about fifteen minutes later, after searching up and down several likely streets...
Though many fishermen and most high school graduates could answer "four" in a flash, it was not so easy for 13 black laborers in North Carolina who wanted the Duke Power Co. to promote them to coal handlers. In fact, the company insisted that they take a general intelligence test full of verbal and mathematical puzzles. The men scored low and remained where they were...
...affairs with white women that Johnson was prosecuted and persecuted. Other black fighters had been and were similarly entangled, but had genuflected to the system by keeping their affairs clandestine. The system did not condone their activities; it controlled them. The system found Jack Johnson as controllable as flash floods, cyclones, and Standard Oil. In his body was a concentration of wealth comparable to the Beef Trust. In the ring he flaunted his power with a serene arrogance which was far more irritating than the aggressive contempt of a Morgan or a Boss Tweed because it was devoid of acrimony...