RETREAT FROM BOOMTOWN:

...years...

...Despite the risk of incurring our dis- wouldn't have bought tickets in the first place...

...But then, as Frank of a solution, we feel tricked and cheated if the solution Perry well knows, if this were a documentary we isn't forthcoming...

...Restructuring power relationships, both between In addition, says Alderman Karl Jaffary, the movement the city and other levels of government and within To"recognizes above all the ability of all citizens to iden- ronto itself, is what is needed to ensure long-range protection for the city's interests...

...Mysterious phone calls and threats against his wife (Dorothy Tris000000*0*00*00 tan) drive Tucker to distraction...

...Such straddling of modes may result from an fiction film or a documentary he's making...

...development, a 187-acre, federally-subsidized transporDavid Crombie, a one-term Council member who was tation, communications, commercial and high-rent resigenerally considered to be the "neighborhood" candi- dential project along the waterfront, Crombie and the date, easily defeated two opponents...

...foreign policy must be a thorough reappraisal of a policy which will and concrete military aid to Portugal has grown more build peace both in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bisfavorable...

...He seems tude toward a character in a fiction film of his own to be in control of the investigation and is clearly the creating, however, this is ridiculous...

...A real pleasure, however, at the end of his new mystery film, documentary requires a subject inherently interesting Man on a Swing, director Frank Perry remains undecided...

...working committees with citizen representation to plan Instead, says Crombie, "We should be subway-building for specific geographical areas...

...Certainly in murder mysteries, since our mind learn the solution...

...Moreover, Toronto is part of a six-borough Metro government on which suburban representatives frequently outvote the city...

...power...

...Waterfront construction before the war, a small-townish city of mostly private threatens to block off Lake Ontorio from the city...

...Nor has the movement yet sucof 100 homes for a luxury high-rise project...

...would solve the crime by losing control of himself...

...American, Roman-on the relation of justice and peace The self-interest of the United States foreign policy to the gospel of Jesus Christ...

...What had been, resold for enormous gains...

...on him to do so...

...Council posts, making it fairly easy for them to find one On some issues, such as the proposed Metro Centre more vote and thereby muster a majority on most issues...

...Prophetic voices of the political relations of the U.S...

...ronto's skyline but its quality of life...

...His Such a return is not expected, for over the past few powers are not those of concentration, but of entranceyears, the citizens' movement and its political allies have ment...

...This may have he pores over the police photographer's slides of the been what Perry was aiming at, but it looks like the victim...

...And in 1971, what had become known ment buildings are torn down for high-rise, "luxury" as the "citizens' movement" scored a major victory when the Ontario government reversed the municipal decision PETER FREIBERG is a staff writer for the New York Post special- to build another downtown road, the Spadina Expressizing in urban affairs...

...Union Station, Toronto's landmark railroad terminal, "Development, unbridled and unchecked, was a threat must be almost wholly demolished, as Metro Centre each of us could see...

...taken never found out for sure himself...

...having thought ahead, paints himself into a corner at the But then onto the scene comes Wills, a self-proclaimed end of the job...

...RETREAT FROM BOOMTOWN PETER FREIBERG The cult of moreness comes under attack in Toronto Perhaps more than any other North American city towers geared to well-to-do singles...

...On the other hand, in Swing were a documentary, this reasoning might wash most movies the ending inevitably does have a retroac- with us, us ticket holders who have been waiting to tive effect...

...African resistance and has arrived at a focal point of change, wherein there rebellion has become more organized...

...are not institutionalized and could be abrogated by Having rejected the policy of what William Marshall, future administrations...

...The issues hit Council have provided little leadership in asserting city home," wrote Jack Granatstein, a neighborhood activist, priorities...

...Most com- subjective view of the victim's experience...

...and the antagonism shifts from that between the policeBut they want to have a say in the process, and there man and the criminal to one between the policeman and must be benefits to the neighborhood, not just problems...

...a top Crombie aide, calls "bigger and better at any cost," The Mayor probably has not paid more attention to the Mayor and Council exhibit far more sensitivity to decentralization because there has been little pressure neighborhood preservation than past administrations...

...It was only after citizens began organizing in the Toronto Citizen, a lively downtown bi-monthly that the city decided to hire a consultant to see whether newspaper that provides a forum for the movement...

...After all, documentaries are supposed has been thrust forward all along the way in expectation to stick to the facts no matter what...

...Tucker would solve this crime by sheer concen- work of that man who, painting his kitchen without tration if that's possible...

...backers claim...

...We can't suppose sort of man who is in control of himself...

...If Man on a We shouldn't blame them for it...

...There are also several I A 14~  I l i' score semi-autonomous agencies and public corporations .''IOVI A'T &v , I over which the city has little control...

...cities, the suburban expansion was not ac- Although Toronto planners were better than their Amercompanied by economic deterioration in the central ican counterparts-there has been, for example, concore...

...In transportation, five expressways little to decentralize city government...

...The dichotomy of the independent African sau, and also within the United States itself, where it is nations and Portugal and her allies has reached a greater becoming more and more apparent that economic and chasm at the United Nations...

...We see how facts from the author who imagined him...

...Moderate-rent homes and small apart- the city to save it...

...undue influence on Perry by Truman Capote, whose Whatever the outcome might be, we could have Trilogy Perry directed for the screen several years ago...

...Opponents in Toronto is the conviction of many residents that the pointed to studies showing that the cost of providing runaway Boomtown development to which the city has services to highrise projects equaled or surpassed the been subject threatens the stability of its neighborhoods taxes received...

...on the contrary, hundreds of new office towers, tinual subway building since World War 11-they went high-rise apartment buildings and government and insti- along with the Boomtown ethos, using the alleged ecotutional structures dramatically changed not only To- nomic benefits as their rationale...

...It did not take long for headway to be made...

...With Wills out of the picture, Tucker becomes a victim almost as helpless, and THE SCREEN panicky, as the girl must have been...

...Development the issue as development vs...

...As a director's atti(Cliff Robertson), to solve the girl's murder...

...Although he has a no-nonsense manner that seems members in this November's election, a coalition will compatible with Tucker's way of operating, Wills is likely be formed to prevent the return of the develop- really the opposite of the policeman he would help...

...For years, this rationale went largely unchallenged...

...a community the intention of backing pro-neighborhood candidates housing corporation will now renovate them for single for the City Council...

...We watch him that a character has somehow managed to withhold the doing the leg work that the crime requires...

...And does Wills come by his special knowledge of the original crime because he was involved On the one hand it seems unfair to condemn a whole in it too...

...Commonweal: 85...

...It is now Tucker who begins to lose control, first of the investigation, and then of himself THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH when he tries to do without Wills' assistance...

...Unlike ing commercial and industrial growth in the suburbs...

...no development, opponents and growth have not only slowed down, but the kind argued that the real issue was the quality of development of development and growth the city will experience in the that would take place...

...We have the expertise and detify their own needs and desires and to create a govern- sire to deal with city problems more effectively than ment responsive to them...

...Development in Toronto, as which there was significant local participation...

...Wills ment-at-any-price politicians...

...Nor can Maybe Perry only wants to be about half documentary, he make up his mind whether Wills is implicated in the respecting the facts where the au courant subject of murder of a young girl with which the film opened...

...That same year, many groups involved in the Commonweal: 83 Spadina fight formed Community Organization '72 with groups to buy the homes for $800,000...

...But what seems most important main tax base-its middle-class families...

...If -David and Lisa, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Play It as we regard the opacity of Perry's ending as a comment It Lays, et al.-suggest that even a mystery plot would on clairvoyance, it has a certain justification, I suppose...

...While Boomtown advocates presented town thinking is under attack in Toronto...

...guessed from the beginning that the mystery would ulti- Lee Tucker seems very heavily modeled on Officer mately reside in one of the characters rather than in Dewey in In Cold Blood, especially when Tucker tries to circumstances or events...

...Where Tucker tries to take an objective view of succeeded to a remarkable extent in clarifying the basic the evidence, Wills falls into a faint that gives him a issues of planning, growth and development...

...If the developers mount a strong campaign clairvoyant who insists he has special insight into the against Crombie and the pro-neighborhood Council crime...

...Should the need to singles, the Council was persuaded by neighborhood arise, another broad-based coalition would arise," says 29 March 1974: 84 Granatstein...

...Today, a quarter century after the transformation be- But by the mid-1960s, opposition was beginning to surgan, the cult of moreness that is the essence of Boom- face in Toronto...

...enough, in and of itself, to attract our attention, and an He can't decide whether his main character, Franklin obscure suburban murder case isn't such a subject...

...Partly, development aesthetically displeasing, they said, but the this is due to the economic downturn in Canada, along social disruption it caused was driving out the city's with the energy crisis...

...He has also done attitude prevails...

...town neighborhood, for a "luxury" high-rise catering Still, the movement is hardly dead...

...While Crombie has urged the province to decision-making must be made part and parcel of plan- surrender some of its taxing powers to Toronto and ning...

...Metro, he favors amalgamation of Metro's six boroughs The record of Mayor Crombie and the Council in these into one city-a proposal that might well widen the gap areas is mixed, but there is no question that a new between government and the people...

...It also repealed a by-law passed a sympathetic Mayor and Council have lessened the by the last Council that would have permitted razing urgency to organize...

...The citizens movement has several main goals, includ- Nevertheless, as Alderman William Kilbourn puts it, ing improving public transit, containing high-rise devel- Crombie has "made a good start on growth, but not on opment and retaining Toronto's neighborhood flavor...

...many U.S...

...Symbolic of the new perspective of the Confederation of Residents and Ratepayers was passage of a by-law that mandates developers to Assns., was "eminently successful, much more than we seek City Council approval of any proposed downtown anticipated...

...True, he set up depicted on a 1966 city map will probably not be built...

...But is it Wills who is persecuting him...

...The film begins Perry is just admitting that there are men who know more with the efforts of a small-town police chief, Lee Tucker than the rest of us, himself included...

...We'll never know...

...Since the 1972 election, the citizens' Thus, the Council opposed the federal government when movement has been in a state of decline...

...Not only was much of the new future may be drastically different from the past...

...but these committees until the end of the century...

...Frank Perry's previous credits solve the crime by deciphering those photographs...

...Perfectly sound ofexcept Los Angeles, Toronto was the epitome of the fice buildings are demolished because the land can be Boomtown era of the 1950s and '60s...

...Community it sought to condemn nine houses to build a parking groups tend to be crisis-oriented, and the presence of lot for the Mounties...

...and family occupancy and build additional apartments The campaign, says James Lemon, former chairman in new low-rise houses...

...Wills (Joel Grey), is really clairvoyant or not...

...and Portugal are mitigating secular world in Africa have been speaking for fifteen against justice for 96 percent of the African population...

...and though the ending may dis- Connecticut police chief from whose files this case was satisfy us, it is still just one moment among all the others...

...way...

...In other words, decentralized they can...

...CO '72-supported candidates won 11 of 23 building higher than 45 feet...

...his collaborator, Wills...

...COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...

...In clairvoyance is concerned and giving the rest a fictional fact he hasn't even settled for sure whether this is a treatment...

...munities," says Alderman Colin Vaughan, "recognize As a result Tucker is usurped, or at least disoriented, that there must be some building in their neighborhoods...

...When a ceeded in extending its middle-class base to sink roots developer announced his intention to demolish nine in working-class and "New Canadian" immigrant neighhomes in the Annex section, a pleasant low-rise down- borhoods...

...and therefore is dangerous to the city as a whole...

...We watch the The reason we'll never know-or at least the excuse movie from moment to moment, enjoying (or not enjoy- Frank Perry makes for not telling us-is that the real ing) it as we go along...

...I'd prefer to see other levels of government give us the money and power," says Crombie...

...At present, the Ontario government, like all Canadian provinces, exercises almost complete control over municipalities...

...Cities are, 1 a 11l I IL 10 legally, "creatures of the province," heavily dependent on it for funds...

...In one This conviction, which led to the election of a neigh- downtown neighborhood, Trefann Court, community borhood-oriented Mayor and City Council in 1972, is pressure brought about the first urban renewal project in based on sound evidence...

...Similar voices within the Catholic Church are just The Catholic Church must speak as one voice-lay beginning to be heard in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea- people, clergy, hierarchy, African, Portuguese, North Bissau, Portugal and the United States...

...be turned into a character study by him...

...To homes was transformed into the dynamic center of an funnel commuters downtown, a network of expressways expanding metropolis that now contains 2.25 million was built, destroying valleys and homes and discouragpeople-more than 10 percent of all Canadians...

...movie for having only a bad ending...

...When the in American cities, has been geared not to social needs old City Hall faced demolition, citizen action persuaded but to profits...