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Monday afternoon. Senior Catherine Crisera, a captain of the women's basketball team, is relaxing in her fifth floor room in Eliot's Hentry. The gold dome of Kirkland House stands sentinel outside the window, as a few thin rays are permitted to pass. Miles Davis and Quincy jam live at Montreux on the CD player...
Howe's reason for painting representationally is twofold: first, he depicts his environment for pure convenience--a scene he sees out his window in the Leverett towers is readily accessible. Also, when he describes his cityscape, "Church Street Backyards," he points out the almost tangible but still airy atmosphere between the houses in the paintings: "It feels really good, to feel illusionality. It's one of the most beautiful things about the creative process. That's less true about abstraction--like Picasso, I need a subject...
...movie's plot is the rehashed tale of the good cop gone bad. In this case, Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) is the Queens police sergeant who cannot resist the temptations of the underworld. Like a child at a candystore window, Jack, in doing surveillance work, has longingly spied on the blandly depicted lifestyles of the rich and infamous. Instead of trading in his badge for true mobster glory, Jack decides to be a mob informer by remaining on the force. The whereabouts of protected witnesses is big business as Jack begins working for Don Falcone (Roy Scheider...
...screen chemistry between Dunaway and Beatty is achieved by both their excellent character portrayals and the cinematography. At the beginning, Bonnie pounds on the window out of sheer boredom. Her call is immediately answered with a view of Clyde, who is contemplating stealing her mother's car. When their glance meet through the window, the moment seals their fate. Quick shots of Bonnie's deft strokes as she flawlessly applies her lipstick, Clyde's cocksure grin as he displays his gun to prove his claim as a bankrobber, and the target practice, where Clyde teaches Bonnie to shoot through...
HUNGER AND HOPELESSNESS CAN drive people to desperate acts. As a 10-truck U.N. aid convoy entered the Muslim village of Ticici in central Bosnia on its way to Tuzla last Wednesday, more than 200 residents stood waiting by the road. Someone opened fire from the window of a house at the convoy's police escort, and the villagers mobbed the trucks, grabbing for any supplies they could reach. It was the second attack in two days on a convoy in Ticici, where villagers believe they are not receiving their fair share of food...