Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that Parisi was transferred from a jail in Brooklyn to jail in The Bronx, waiting to be tried for killing Irving Penn. But it looked very much as though he might beat the rap again. One thing was certain: Jack would not talk. The law, by cleaning up the old charges, seemed only to be helping Parisi get back into circulation-and in his business, there were always job openings for close-mouthed...
...Court has refused to review the conviction of the Hollywood Ten for contempt of Congress. Ducking the responsibility of saying why, the Court has in effect okayed the Un-American Committee's pat routine for jailing the opposition. The Committee simply calls a man up to the stand and asks him if he "is or ever has been." If the man is a Communist who, like most such, cannot reveal his membership without losing his job, or if he's simply a decent person, Communist or not, who refuses to be party to political suppression, he gives no answer...
When the tramp finally gets the money needed by the blind girl for an eye operation, he is thrown unjustly into jail. After he gets out he finds the girl again, but this time, thanks to his generosity, she can see. The picture ends with a haunting scene: the heroine's shattering realization that her benefactor is the tramp, and his tremulously mixed reaction of joy and shame...
...Themes. Two of the best in Editor Ciardi's collection are Robert Lowell 33 and Delmore Schwartz, 36. Lowell, an' old-family New Englander whose natural taste for rebellion led him to Roman Catholicism and then to pacifism and jail for evading the draft, writes richly rhetorical verses in which he is not afraid to work with the old human themes-death, war and ambition. Schwartz, a Brooklyn poet on whom the experience of Jewish immigrant life has left an indelible mark of irony, writes poems that are calculatedly flat, wry and witty...
Barricade (Warner) casts Raymond Massey as a leering sadist at the head of a shady gold mine worked by bums and brigands who have nowhere else to go but jail. Into his clutches come Dane Clark and Ruth Roman, two fugitives from justice. Before they can get away to square their debt to society, Massey maltreats not only most of the cast but also some lines from Shakespeare, whose Richard III he idolizes and emulates. In the end, the screen fills up with enough blood-splotched corpses (in Technicolor) to make Richard III look like a Quaker. By that time...