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...money side, things were grim. The group occasionally had to work together in grocery stores, one buying something like a loaf of bread while the others tried to steal what they could. "We didn't have nothing to eat," Robbie explains. "And no money." One night, really desperate, Levon and Robbie decided to stick up a crap game with a pot that often ran to $7,000 or $8,000. With masks made of pillow cases they moved out on their mission ?only to find the game had broken up early and everybody was gone...
...scene shows a driver awakening in a hospital to discover that he is missing a leg. Stewart also demonstrates how alcohol retards reaction time and causes personality changes that impair judgment. He recites a litany of grim statistics on highway slaughter...
...hour and a half is a long time for any child-or beagle-to be amusing, and the whimsy that attempts to fill the time frequently falters. Charlie's grim pursuit of Best Speller status could use some comic-strip relief. And an interlude of Schroeder playing Beethoven's Pathètique falls into the old Fantasia trap, overly baited with pictorial gewgaws and kitsch...
AFTER more than a year of study, the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence saw that grim picture of future life in urban America. The vision gave added urgency to the work of the commission's 13 members, who delved into every aspect of their subject from violence on television to gun control and assassinations. Last week, in their final statement, the commissioners called for a drastic change in the nation's priorities...
...vehement put-down of men sticks more strongly in one's mind: "Like the tyrannosaurus, man is blocking evolution.... Until he gives up existence, there will be no relief from suffering nor any moral progress on this planet." She is smiling slightly, we hope, even though her tone is grim. But she is serious. Her anti-male attitude is a big facet of the Journal's version of the liberation movement...