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...caricature contained more truth than humor. Making good on a long-hinted threat, the Socialist Party last week withdrew its parliamentary support for Moro's fragile coalition government, thereby forcing the Cabinet to resign. With Italy still deep in its worst postwar recession, the country faced the grim prospects of 1) living with another ineffectual (even minority) coalition government, or 2) elections that could give the well-organized Communist Party a share of power...
...months it took to make, Ruckus Manhattan is closer to the street than the museum. It is cobbled together from the lumberyards of So-Ho and hardware bazaars of Canal Street, permeated with the hoarse side-of-the-mouth loquacity of a kvetching cabbie, swarming with grim and gaudy figures who, says Mimi Gross, are true New Yorkers, being "nosy, curious and short." There is a gritty and lugubrious side to the Ruckus imagination. Some of the figures are gross ham-faced brutes; and the bum who presides over the entrance to Wall Street is a scarecrow fit to terrify...
...enforcer who goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker. "You don't like me polluting your water," replies the grim dunker. "I don't like you polluting...
...apparent heart attack; in Palm Desert, Calif. Lee left Columbia University for an acting career, went to Hollywood in 1916 and directed several silent movies, including Doomsday, starring Gary Cooper. When the talkies killed the silents, the adaptable Lee quickly met the challenge by turning out the grim, chilling Derelict and a cloak-and-sword drama, The Count of Monte Cristo, with equal dexterity. He retired in 1945 to his San Fernando Valley ranch but came back in 1959 to produce The Big Fisherman...
...decent sanitation. Those same children never see a doctor, often go only fitfully to school, experience a confused, harassed and in some cases uprooted childhood, and have a life expectancy much lower than that of other children. Their parents are not "child-centered"; their parents are frightened, vulnerable, grim and themselves hungry, jobless, constantly apprehensive. It is one thing to live in a world that altogether lacks good sanitation, electricity or good medical care, as did colonial Americans, but in compensation to feel the self-respect that goes with being an accepted and welcome member of a particular community...