Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...labor, for instance--or changes like allowing religious freedom that Wicker thought should have been in effect all along. The inmates were holding out for amnesty from prosecution for actions taken during the rebellion. They knew of the Auburn and Tombs riots after which the state had filed grab-bag blanket charges against inmates, and of the case of the Harlem Four, whom New York was attempting to bring to court again after six years, two mistrials, and an overthrown verdict. Those were only three examples of an entire racial consciousness of dragnet arrests, trumped-up charges, manufactured or flimsy...
Jeannie Berlin, Elaine May's daughter, is clearly talented, but she cannot continue playing the kind of girl who feels incomplete without a shopping bag...
...candidate." Moreover, party leaders are also withholding their endorsements, and for an excellent reason. Explains Deputy Mayor John DeLuca of San Francisco: "A lot of the boys learned a political lesson the hard way last time. They came out early for Muskie and were left holding the bag." Adds Illinois Democratic Chairman John Touhy...
...perk up this familiar rehash, Updike gives his clergyman a bag of Nabokovian wordplays and tries to pass him off as Humbert Humbert (in Lolita, Humbert observed, "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style"). Marshfield rattles off alliterations as if he were on death row. He describes a local nursery "which piously kept its Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many...
...case Mrs. Onassis came in with her husband, mail slot and pile of mail." L.A. has long been the culture capital of suspense fiction. Boston may now be moving up. In Parker's God Save the Child, kidnapers instruct that the ransom be put in a green book bag - a touch as evocative of Boston as the swan boats in the Public Garden...