Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...
...believe it.* He has put on lots of weight lately, but this is the result of the medicine he's taking." Then Mother Guevara set off on the road again; at Tucuman in the Argentine provinces, her presence started a most rewarding brawl. Now she is back in Brazil, where she can count on more rallies, more riots...
...even more than his winning pleased them. "He's one of those typically fresh New York kids who aggravate you out of sheer contrariness," ex-General Manager George Weiss once said. In 1957 he was fined $1,000 when he and five teammates got into a post-midnight brawl at the Copacabana while celebrating ex-Yankee infielder Billy Martin's 29th birthday...
Wages Up, Jobs Down. For years, Curran and Hall have waged a Pier 6 brawl with each other for dominance of seagoing labor. Hoping to forge ahead of Hall, Joe Curran this year demanded a 30-hour work week, a 12% package wage increase over four years, and assorted fringes. Hall, not to be outdone, asked management for something much more controversial-the right to bargain for more than 20,000 foreign sailors who man U.S.-owned ships registered abroad. (Curran made the same demand, but passed word that he would drydock it for sweeter wages and hours...
...lately presented the incongruous figure of a Milquetoast engaged in a street brawl. Unwilling to dirty its hands, it has allowed itself to be pushed into the gutter by the left and right of Laos and Cuba. Eventually we will be surely beaten if we do not fight back...