Word: alley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't have a badge or or anything, so I turn around and belt him and then hit him over the head with a ketchup bottle. His friend sees this, and he draws a gun on me. They arrest me and take me outside in the alley. They put the handcuffs on me and I couldn't do nothing because one's got a gun on me. Then the sheriff tells the other one to put the gas gun in my face and let'm have it. Well, I didn't know what he was doing so I looked right...
First Baptist's facilities, which take up three blocks, are kept humming by a host of other goings on. The two top floors of the parking building (capacity: 300 cars) are given over to a mammoth gymnasium, a bowling alley and game and craft rooms. The recreation facilities are open year-round from early morning until 10 p.m. There are adult-education and hobby classes in everything from Spanish to candlemaking. These manifold activities help account for First Baptist's popularity, and all are free, except bowling. The costs are paid for by the church's capacious...
Fentress: Even so, Nixon has mellowed a great deal. I think the defeats of 1960 and 1962 contributed to that. He is a bigger man than he was in 1960. The old Nixon was a political alley fighter who would throw the word treason around rather freely. He doesn't do that now, but he might be capable of it again if it seemed necessary...
...killer himself. Pleasence's own acting ambitions are more conventional. "I'd really like to do a season of repertory with Shaw," he muses. "We'd do a Shakespeare, a new play, a revival of The Caretaker." And, he adds, with that alley-cat smile: "If we couldn't find somebody to put up the money, we'd do it ourselves, with the money from the glossy movies...
...model for a quality I don't have-authority. I can't even get a waiter in a restaurant." Pleasence considers Goldman one of his three best performances-the other two being Davies in Pinter's The Caretaker ("I had the image of an alley cat in mind") and the title role in the Broadway production of Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos...