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- <title>
- Jan. 07, 1991: American Notes:Crime
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 07, 1991 Men Of The Year:The Two George Bushes
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 59
- American Notes
- CRIME
- Echoes of the Sound Track
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- <p> On the screen a dozen mobsters are gunned down, spoiling a
- Mafia family meeting in an Atlantic City hotel. In a theater in
- Valley Stream, N.Y., a late-night showing of The Godfather Part
- III produced real violence at about the same point in the movie.
- </p>
- <p> The trouble apparently began with two groups of youths
- shouting back and forth, each urging the other to be quiet. Then
- gunfire erupted and nearly 600 panicky moviegoers stampeded out
- of the dark auditorium. When the lights went on, four innocent
- spectators lay wounded by the cross fire, one of them fatally.
- Police said four handguns had been used in the shootout.
- </p>
- <p> What accounts for such behavior? Probably not the movie,
- which has a few violent scenes, but is so arty and slow-moving
- that some viewers have fallen asleep while watching it. The
- flick does, however, attract large numbers of well-armed urban
- youths for whom gunplay has become routine. Says Nassau County
- detective William Krausch: "I think it's just the crowd."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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