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795 words, approx. 3 pages Made in 27 days on a very modest budget, Mean Streets is arguably Martin Scorsese's first significant film. A hit at the 1973 New York Film Festival, important popular critics like Pauline Kael and Vincent Canby were taken with its freshness and... summary from source:
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Mean Streets (1973) is an early Martin Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John "Johnny Boy" Civello. In 1997, Mean Streets was... 
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 RCR Wireless News Mean street.
10/23/2000: 388 words, approx. 1 pages In recent weeks, we've seen Wall Street unmercifully punish wireless and blue-chip high-tech firms because of lower-than-expected quarterly earnings. Maybe punish is the wrong word. How about mutilate. In one fell swoop, unforgiving financial kingpins lop off value--sometimes a third or more--from high-tech firms.... summary from source:
The Independent - London Mean street
02/22/1997: 1,820 words, approx. 6 pages A camel has just sliced noisily across Calle Salud. You cannot fail to see, hear and smell it; if you were to hurry, you could touch it, but then you would also get a lungful of noxious emissions that would leave a bitter taste... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Paris Hilton Was Wrong, Says New Social Study
1/3/2008: 278 words, approx. 1 pagesParis Hilton once said: “All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard and look twice as good [as the woman next to you.]” But according to an article in today’s Times, it’s now far more complicated. A new... summary from source:
AP News Scorsese finally wins Academy Award
2/26/2007: 481 words, approx. 2 pagesIt took 26 years, six directing nominations and two screenplay nominations, but Martin Scorsese finally has his Oscar.Righting one of Hollywood's biggest oversights, the Academy Awards bestowed Martin Scorsese with a best-directing Oscar on Sunday night for "The Departed."Scorsese was received with a rousing standing...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by David Denby
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[Mean Streets is certainly] a 'little' New York film …, with no stars and not much variety or glamour in the settings—in some respects the movie is the culmination of the lonely-streets-and-sullen-bedrooms style of student films produced in the last decade…. But emotionally, Mean Streets is grandiose and amazingly intense—'operatic' … in the manner of mid-Visconti, yet peculiarly American in its speed, energy, obscenity and humour. And Scorsese ... summary from source:
Critical Review by William S. Pechter
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In the following excerpt, Pechter qualifies his praise for Mean Streets by stressing what he considers the limitations of improvisational acting and Scorsese's consequent failure to establish a narrative structure.
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Critical Essay by Richard Combs
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If there is one central paradox to Martin Scorsese's movies, it must be their knack for harnessing a single-minded intensity of purpose to an instinct for charging off in a variety of directions. Such contradictory energy is also what makes his protagonists run; and on his home ground, in a Little Italy suffused with the pain of ruling passions running up blind alleys in Mean Streets, Scorsese is the peerless spokesman for a world where hell-raising is the only escape from some hell-bent obsession of...
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