Word: bologna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only takes one good idea ..." So runs the old American saw about the old American dream of overnight wealth. Cops and Robbers is about a pair of the former (attractively played by Joseph Bologna and Cliff Gorman) who turn into the latter in order to lift themselves out of their installment-plan lives as neighbors in a Queens culdesac. Although they fail to score on their prime target, a vaultful of bearer bonds in a Wall Street brokerage house, they finally lay a solid hit on a secondary target of opportunity-the Mafia-and walk off chortling...
...fact, Cops and Robbers would hardly be worth mentioning were it not so drearily typical of what passes for humor on the screen these days. It is true that we lack clowns of legendary status, but that is not really the problem; given something to do, actors like Bologna and Gorman would do it very nicely. The trouble is a lack of literate lunatics like, say, Hecht and MacArthur among the screenwriters; a lack of directors like, say, Howard Hawks, who can get to the point and then stick to it until the last laugh has been squeezed out. Sometimes...
...afflicted 94 victims and killed at least ten. Cases of cholera cropped up in the Adriatic port of Bari. The disease erupted in Rome, and finally leaped the Tyrrhenian Sea to Sardinia. By week's end, cases had been reported in Florence and as far north as Bologna and Milan...
After two or three beers, I enjoy talking about my ex-roommate who liked peanut butter and bologna sandwiches, about the night four of us inched across the Adams House roof to break into the pool at 2 a.m. I like talking about The Crimson comp, about loud concerts, and stupid jokes my drinking partner has heard also...
...lost control of things," she said. "Prices are so high we haven't had pork chops or steak in a month." Mrs. Joan Sheets of Los Angeles had the same complaint: "They tell us to eat less expensively, but just try finding a cheaper cut of meat. Even bologna is $1.30 a pound...