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...often depend on whether a boy walks on one side of a street or the other. Forays by an individual or a group into the territory of another gang are a justifiable cause for all out combat. The slightest provocation-a little back talk in a school corridor, a random surreptitious glance at the "sister" of another corner, a taunting gesture from a block's distance-can plunge corners into a war that may last for two or three years...
...DAYS OF SIMON STERN by ARTHUR A. COHEN 464 pages. Random House...
Disparate Rulings. That local-standard rule could conceivably turn into a nightmare for publishers, film makers and other distributors of mass-circulation material. Robert Bernstein, head of Random House, sees the decision as "a call to arms to every crazy vigilante group in this country." Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley warns, "This really sets us back in the dark ages. Now prosecuting attorneys in every county and state will be grandstanding, and every jury in every little community will have a crack at each new book, play and movie...
...MICHAEL KORDA 242 pages. Random House...
Rosi's movie is a semi-documentary investigation of that crash, as dramatically formless as a pile of researcher's note cards shuffled and dealt out at random, leaving the viewer to reach whatever conclusion he pleases about the cause of Mattel's ugly demise. This formlessness dictates a film less suspenseful and, in the end, less satisfying than it might have been. It never quite pierces the surface to reach the dramatic possibilities we know to be buried in the dark depths below...