Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followed her Korean mother to a ramshackle bar and discovered that her mother was for sale to U.S. servicemen. On the way home, alone, the little girl had an even more traumatic experience: a man lured her into an alley and assaulted her. At eight, she learned why classmates jeered "half-caste!" at her: her father had been a white G.I. At 16, she was a full-fledged prostitute working among American soldiers who liked her slim Occidental legs and ample breasts...
...carries over to the screen the grand hauteur she learned as a haute couture model, then plays her glacial poise for laughs. Not even the antics of Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen could persuade the Pussycat to purr, but fanciers, fatigued with Ursula Andress as an alley cat and Romy Schneider as a kitten, applauded Capucine's purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose of her cuckolded husband. When he asked how she could save...
This Detroit daydream come true was made possible last week by the opening of a new superhighway that bypasses "Gasoline Alley," an elevenmile stretch of road south of Hartford with 18 stop lights and heavy local traffic, lined on both sides with aluminum diners, neon-lit drive-ins and stucco motels...
...helicopters. In the past four years, 8,300 have made the perilous journey by water. A British freighter captain who puts into Havana estimates that for every refugee who evades Castro's patrols, three die. He calls the 40-mile stretch extending from the northern coast "Machine Gun Alley," and says: "Time and again, we come across small boats drifting helplessly. And when we look inside, we find bodies riddled with bullets-men, women and children...
Though tensions have eased, little else has noticeably changed since the riots. Not only are most of Watts's pillaeed stores still closed, but the slum is still without a single restaurant, bowling alley, roller rink or movie theater (the nearest cinema is a 60?, four-mile round-trip bus ride away). Men loll in clusters on front porches drinking Colt .45 beer. When a white man passes, a lanky teen-ager taunts him: "Better not be here at 5. That's when the riot's gonna start all over again." A police car drives...