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...political figure, but he deplored the Nazi influence in his country during World War II. By 1946, his satiric comments on the pro-Fascist Argentine government and the accession of Juan Peron to power brought him a demotion from a state job as librarian to the post of chicken inspector in Buenos Aires. Today, at home, the aging poet's days are full of calm work and study. Lately he has received special assistance from a young American, Norman de Giovanni, who is translating all Borges' writing into English...
...change of mood from the first to the second Mabuse is complete. Each character of the second is typed, limited, almost judged in a hard, bitter manner. In the place of the ambivalent de Witt we have a pig, Inspector Lohmann, whose chief distinction is the dread in which petty criminals hold him. A practical detective, Lohmann works not by mental penetration and battles of the will, but by reconstructing acts men have already committed. He uses physical clues to track down the master criminal where de Witt tried to discover his identity and scize Mabuse himself...
...clear to him, becomes a petty thief. Through repeated series of close shots, Bresson chronicles the man's early fumbling attempts, his education in criminal technique, and finally his successive successful efforts in relieving other men of their valuables. Despite the efforts of a friend and an interested police inspector to deter him and prevent his being imprisoned, Michel purposely persists and in the end is caught by a detective who had set himself up as a foil...
...agencies. Acknowledging the FDA's manpower and budgetary problems, he criticized its failure to conduct its own research or release results. Charging that the Agriculture Department is more industry-than consumer-oriented, he said that its inspection practices were characterized by "widespread complicity, incompetence and demoralization among the inspector corps...
...amused at your discussion of pickpockets [June 20]. As an ex-member of a whiz mob (pickpocket group), it is evident to me that the kind of people Detective Inspector Candlish has had his experience with are pretty crude operators. Nor is his information entirely correct. A stall is not a "runner"-whatever that is supposed to be-a stall is an extremely skilled kinetic psychologist who knows exactly how to walk alongside or in front of the "mark" (victim) so that he is forced to slow down or turn aside, right into the wire. This is called "framing...