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...Rooney and gravel-larynxed Lionel Stander are playing a couple of gangsters, and four Maltese cats are masquerading as Mae West, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich. But what really catches the Zeitgeist of those crazy days is the bit where Rooney gets shot and Stander does a backward somersault into the pool to surface in the middle of a floating...
...they set out to create was to have been primarily the Jewish State, but at the same time, a workers' paradise centered on concepts of freedom and justice, a force for civilization and enlightenment in the Middle East, which (with the naivete of true historial determinists) they assumed the backward oppressed Arabs would be only too glad to accept. It is a tragedy of history that the well-meaning forces of Jewish nationalism collided head-on with an Arab nationalism which none suspected existed--and that in the ensuing conflict, "the Chosen People" would become a nation of conquerors...
...maestro's decline are greatly exaggerated. But they are not. No 20th century artist - not even Dali - went down so fast. The homage at the Cultural Center is a lugubrious affair, but an interesting one nevertheless; for it records in great detail how one gifted painter went backward under pressure, like an irritated crab, into a historical impasse - and has stuck there ever since, snapping his crusty pincers at every stir in the water...
Tatrallyay produced another epic moment in fencing during his second bout. Retreating rapidly in the face of a Hopkins fencer's running attack, he tripped and executed a backward roll in the midst of which he managed to score on his incredulous opponent. The incident added further luster to the legend of Tatrallyay's technique, which has been called by many the "most unique style in America...
...confined against their will last summer during peach picking around Spartanburg, S.C. They allegedly charged the whites exorbitant amounts for such things as wine, soap, razor blades and cigarettes, and forcibly prevented them from leaving until their debts were paid. According to the indictment, the blacks, with perhaps a backward bow to Simon Legree, beat one white migrant who tried to leave the camp...