Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first plan--simply to sell enough and get out. With his more cynical partner Eddie, Priest goes to the old friend who got him started on the trade and is now himself retired, running a swank Harlem night spot. Scatter is not flustered by Eddie's strong-arm tactics, nor after minutes of consideration is he at all enamored of the idea, which places more risks on his current security than he would like to take. Then Fly turns on the old man, berates him for taking the fatherly responsibility of introducing him to a trade (no matter if illicit...
...plays on his knees, and then he plays pedal steel with the chair. More Hendrix; then feedback; and finally some Moog licks. The element of surprise is as effective as the sheer wildness of the music. The listener is utterly destroyed. And the song is over. Poco leaves in arm-wrestling, hugging disarray...
...faculty of 50. Schools and overgrown universities, however, were only part of the problem. In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, he wrote: "People have a right to be crazy, stupid or arrogant. It is our specialty as human beings. Our mistake is to arm anybody with collective power. Anarchy is the only safe polity...
...cheerful acceptance of people and things that he knows are both second-rate and a bit flaky. Body building is both, but Blake is curious, and what the hell, largeness is all. Charles Gaines, who is able to write about muscular matters without sounding as if he were arm wrestling with Hemingway's ghost, is as fascinated by the body builders as his hero Blake is, and he gives their posing contests a kind of loopy dignity.-John Skow
...finance chairman, Kimelman specialized in putting the arm on big contributors for McGovern's primary battles, raising some $2.5 million, including $80,000 of his own funds. He is also the organization's budget director and became known to McGovern staffers as a tight-fisted spender. "I'm a good clamper-downer," says Kimelman. "I have a lot of one-word answers: No." Among others who bridled at Kimelman's autocratic ways was Max Palevsky, a Xerox millionaire and prime McGovern contributor. Recently he pulled out of the candidate's organization, partly over differences with...