Word: viciousness
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...Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn or Staten Island. Residents of a green and pleasant Staten Island community might almost have been hearing about a foreign country last week when Congressman Lindsay told them of a city where "streets are dirty and unsafe . . . crime and brutality are rampant . . . and the vicious cycle of slum-living continues...
...situation has resulted from a vicious circle. As clubs began to be invaded by the hillbillies, jazzlovers became alienated and retreated to their FM radios and phonographs. Then, as fewer people went to hear jazz, clubs found it more and more profitable to hire more folksingers. This alienated the jazzlovers still more, and a downward spiral has developed...
...then 24, was far from awed by the likes of Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall. After all, he was the first player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Experts marveled at his vicious ground strokes and slashing serve, his unique ability to cock his wrist at the last instant to put topspin or underspin on the ball...
...full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...
...faces. Exhibit A in her social expose is the Royal Pythons, a perversion of "Our Gang" spawned by the poolrooms and tenements of Harlem. Their aspiring leader, 14-year-old Duke Custis, represents the final product of all this deprivation. The message in his story is clear: that the vicious cycle of Harlem life forces people to twist their human potential into grotesque and destructive channels...