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
 
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