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...prison, although jammed with 350 people, looked from the outside like an ordinary house. The prison wardens specialized in subtle forms of torture. All night long guards walked in & out of the cells, switching lights on & off to keep prisoners awake. When prisoners went to bed they had to pile their clothes in the middle of the room. Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed in five minutes. Any prisoner who did not make the deadline was forced to do 200 deep-knee bends; if he fainted before he finished...
...attempts little more than a skin-deep approach to its grim subjects, holds itself well within the limits of melodramatic action. In a California fruit-growing town, a Mexican-American youth (Lalo Rios) innocently gets into trouble with the police. While he flees in fear, more serious charges pile up against him, inflaming the town's prejudice against its underprivileged Latin colony...
Panic swept South Amboy. "Atom bomb," someone yelled and began running. Said a townsman later: "I saw that big pile of smoke just like in the newsreels and I said: 'That bastard Stalin's started it!' " Men & women, carrying children, ran south, away from the blast. Cars loaded with frightened people sped out of town. Mayor Leonard rushed to the city hall, piled into a sound truck and rode about town bellowing reassurance. Finally, the southward rush slowed and stopped...
...that help to explain Grant's military greatness, Lloyd Lewis' Volume I is biography's richest, most persuasive treatment of Grant's youthful years. As such, it is also profoundly unsatisfying, for it is the end of his work. Behind him Biographer Lewis left a pile of unused research for two or three more volumes...
...well be considered that some of the historical fabric of the picture is fairly enjoyable. It was framed in Berlin itself, and a little of the agony and destruction of the country is caught. A single little shovel digging methodically into an infinite pile of rubble is about as grimly futile as Tantalus' hopeless reach for the fruit...