In the discussion of DEAD MAN WALKING, I was surprised to see the following statement accepted as completely true. >There are more prisons >than schools and governement is putting whole generation of African >Americans and Latinos to prison. It seems to me that on the face of it the claim that there are more prisons than schools is absurd. Can anyone provide actual figures on this? I found more troubling the phenomenon represented by the following passage: "The image of the murdered couple ....is an expression of the permitation of both of protagonists utter permiation by the elements of the situation that has lead to Penn's recieving a leathal injection from the state. .... As the greatly mourned Giles Deleuze put it "method" acting is centered around the permiation of the actor by the situation of the film. In *Dead Man Walking* that permiation happens untill it is a saturation and the actors emit pure affect instead of actions." Are words such as "permitation" and "permiation" actually new critical terms coined by Deleuze or are they merely examples of sloppy spelling (say, for "permeation" or "permutation")? Since there are other misspellings in the passage, I suspect the latter is the case. I realize that lists such as SCREEN-L are less formal than than a scholarly journal in many ways, but surely if one wishes to be understood one has the obligation to observe some basic rules of spelling and grammar in trying to communicate one's ideas. Even a quick reread before hitting the 'send' button could spare one's readers a lot of confusion and annoyance. --Richard J. Leskosky Richard J. Leskosky office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-2223 Unit for Cinema Studies University of Illinois ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]