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Raging Bull is not merely the Jake LaMotta story, or a provincial vignette of life in the Bronx (although it functions on those levels); neither is it America; rather, it is a look at Scorsese's demons, with America serving as a prop. Violence extends beyond the ring to the crowd (where a woman is trampled in the crowd riot) to the church social hall (where drunks are thrown out by bouncers) to the Copacabana (site of a huge brawl) to the kitchen and dinner table. Cathy Moriarty, stunning in her debut as LaMotta's wife Vicki, is as beautiful...
...Chuck? This chap was learning lip curling when the rest of that cast couldn't find the proscenium arch with both hands. Incidentally, about that hanky -you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79? at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth. Now back to the action onstage...
...gained strength as the currencies of other industrial states went soft and saggy. But the mark has been taking a beating itself since Oct. 31, and two weeks ago it staggered so badly that the central banks of the U.S., Britain and France had to take rushed measures to prop it up. Before it began to recover last week, the mark slumped to a low of 51.2? against the dollar, a prolonged slide from its high of 58.8? last January. It was also slipping against such onetime weaklings as the British pound, the French franc and even the Italian lira...
...takes much of the blame for not making more of his opportunity, which he knew was there. But he also believes that the obstacles were too great. Says he: "The mystique of the two-party system has been crafted in the minds of many people as somehow an institutional prop that we shouldn't throw out in an age of instability and rapid change. May be it is just one more thing that it is a little too much for people to be willing to comprehend and absorb in a relatively short period of time...
...Prop 2 1/2 passes, within three years Cambridge will have a volunteer fire department and a lot more parking lots," a city firefighter told community residents at a meeting last week. His conclusion rests on statistics compiled by city manager James L. Sullivan which show that within three years the city would have revenue enough only to pay the interest on its debt and other fixed costs. No police. No firemen. No schools...