Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is so naively contrived that the audience at times must swallow it out of simple generosity. Mifune-appearing 15 years trimmer and every muscular inch a star-plays an idealistic rookie detective whose confidence is shaken when a pickpocket steals his .38 Colt on a crowded bus. He plunges into the Tokyo underworld to find it; and in a long sequence without a word of dialogue interrupting the flow of images, Kurosawa pulls the viewer right in after him. Mifune joins forces with a wise old sleuth (Takashi Shimura), and the two men track a killer through a series...
...good whipping or at least a week in jail in war-like Winona, Miss., but they had replaced the cafeteria with vending machines. An ancient, bespectacled colonel offered me a quarter for my front seat as we approached Winona. I declined and he returned to the back of the bus. Jackson, Miss...
Landerman went to the Soviet Union last summer with the Experiment in International Living, and was arrested when the Volkswagen bus he was driving struck and killed a Soviet citizen...
Roman commuters half expect bus drivers to walk out in the middle of the run, and a housewife never knows when she pops a pasta into the oven whether the gas workers will keep the pressure up until it is baked. The agitation for more pay is intense in Italy because wages are lower there than in most of Europe, but European workers in general are demanding increases at a rate that is bringing them slowly but inexorably toward the U.S. scale...
...reducing de facto segregation in public schools. The Boston press has consistently added "alleged" to "de facto segregation," but almost no one denies that the Roxbury public schools are in fact ninety percent segregated. Mrs. Hicks only claims that changing the Roxbury situation would involve sending children by bus from one neighborhood to another, an uprooting which she considers cruel. The NAACP, on the other hand, has announced that it too is opposed to the bus solution. The association only wants a committee of three School Committee members and three NAACP representatives to formulate, in cooperation with the Harvard School...