Word: barrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bonnie and Clyde. Bang bang! go the guns, and the bank guard falls dead, his face oozing ketchup from every pore. Twang twang! goes the banjo, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ride off in a stolen flivver for further merriment, murder and mayhem...
Beatty, playing the lead, does a capable job, within the limits of his familiar, insolent, couldn't-care-less manner, of making Barrow the amiable varmint he thought himself to be. Barrow fancied himself something of a latterday Robin Hood, robbing only banks that were foreclosing on poor farmers and eventually turning into a kind of folk hero. But Faye Dunaway's Sunday-social prettiness is at variance with any known information about Bonnie Parker. The other gang members struggle to little avail against a script that gives their characters no discernible shape...
...Later. Few Americans faced real physical peril. One exception was U.S. Consul General John R. Barrow, who, with his British counterpart, was trapped by howling crowds on the upper floors of the U.S. consulate in the Syrian city of Aleppo. When the mobs set fire to the building, they escaped by sliding down ropes dropped from the back windows. With the help of Syrian security cops, they were able to hire taxis and, with six other Americans and Britons, made it safely to the Turkish border...
What do Archibald Lee Wright, Walker Smith, Rocco Francis Marchegiano, Arnold Raymond Cream, Joseph Louis Barrow and Carmine Tilelli have in common with Cassius Marcellus Clay? They all were boxing champions who preferred to be known by their aliases* rather than by their proper names. The resemblance ends in the general vicinity of the mouth...
Wind & Surf. Barrow is luckier than some of his West Indian neighbors in at least one respect: there is no hint of any interest in Communism among the Bajans, who are 98% literate and exhibit an easygoing gentility. Race relations are good, although the whites, who make up only 8% of the population, control most of the island's wealth. Easternmost of the West Indies, Barbados is kept at a comfortable 70° to 85° year round by the trade winds, has fine beaches-with Atlantic surf on one side and the calm, clear Caribbean on the other...