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...Lesser Samuels make up for that with sensational incidents (e.g., a woman spits in the Negro doctor's face) and dialogue strewn with virtually every known epithet for Negroes. They draw the line at showing much of the race riot-in which the Negroes ambush and demolish the mob that plans to attack them-but the detailed scenes leading up to it are charged with venom...
...great artist. His work had a whale of a lot of work in it, and that seemed a good thing to the Victorian eye. Frith spent two busy years on his 3-ft.-by-7-ft. Derby Day, crammed the canvas with 3,000 spectators: a happy, seething mob of dandies, shell-game sharpers, yokels, gypsies, fine ladies, jockeys, kids and carnival performers on the green grass of Epsom Downs, under a smiling summer sky. The Royal Academy voted it "Picture of the Year" in 1858, and London's National Gallery hung it in a place of honor...
...ministers). Such behavior keeps them constantly in hot water. Last year two of them were executed in rightist Greece; last month the sect was banned as subversive in Communist Poland (TIME, July 17). Their history in the U.S. has been punctuated by Supreme Court decisions, injunctions, jail terms and mob violence...
...Lawless. A lowbudget, high-voltage treatment of mob violence in a small U.S. town; with Macdonald Carey and Gail Russell (TIME, July...
...Lawless. An unblinking look at mob violence in a California town; with Macdonald Carey and Gail Russell (TIME, July...