Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, "This is reality. This is not a dream. No, it cannot be true. This must be a film. It just isn't real. It just isn't real." Walking toward the desks where processing will be completed, he pauses and grabs his wife's arm. "Look, there," he says. "That man in uniform. He's a Jewish policeman...
...ghetto youth called Peter revealed in a drawing he made for Coles. With a black crayon, he traced circles within circles. In the black center of them all, he inscribed an X, and all around the picture he drew the shattered parts of a human body: two faces, an arm and five legs. A stunned Coles listened in silence to Peter's explanation: "It's that hole we dug in the alley. If you fall into...
...crayon pictures. Whenever she drew white children, they came out taller than she, whatever their height in real life. Her white children had carefully drawn features and the right number of fingers and toes, while she pictured herself as lacking an eye, or perhaps an ear or an arm. "When I draw a white girl," she explained, "I know she'll be O.K., but with the blacks it's not so O.K." All the same, Ruby herself was O.K.; her strength, Coles discovered, came from her "intact and supporting home...
DEALING IS BRANDED by a certain genial decadence; it gives you the feeling that the people who put it together had a rather passive contempt for the project, holding it at a redeeming arm's length while they went through the necessary gestures. Originally a straight-out attempt at pure exploitation, Dealing's script was concocted by Michael Crichton '64 (a Med School graduate who has recently taken up practice in Hollywood) in consultation with his brother Douglas. Even before filming began, the script was turned into a book (a la Love Story and Summer of '42) which was issued...
...rush across the border to buy U.S. cars if the tariff were dropped. Finally, the auto pact has become a symbolic issue in Canadian politics and could affect the outcome of the federal election that is expected next June. Canada's auto-parts industry and its 120.000-member arm of the United Auto Workers are pressuring Prime Minister Trudeau not to budge. All together, the auto workers have sent 25.000 form letters to Trudeau urging him "Do not sell...