Word: carr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emulating such meticulous metaphysicians of suspense as Graham Greene and John Le Carré, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes tried to turn a routine story about the last personal and professional adventures of a gentleman robber into an existential parable. Sadly, the material is too airy to bear the weight of Forbes' meaningful silences and rambunctious camerawork. The arch dialogue is genuine tin (exhausted heroine to Caine: "Have you done it very often in strange rooms with girls who have husbands?"). In the best anti-hero tradition, Caine dies by bungling his last job, losing the girl and getting shot...
...Baker v. Carr (1962) warned legislatures that the court would intervene to remedy legislative malapportionment if state lawmakers did not act of their own volition...
Cornell is still in the Ivy League, so no matter how well Harvard plays, there doesn't seem to be much chance for a League title. Sophomores Jack Turco, Chris Gurry and Terry Flaman, juniors Bill Dierks (goalie) and captain-elect Bobby Bauer and seniors Bob Carr and Jack Garrity had a hand in what would have been a perfect season if not for the Big Red. Harvard lost to B.U. in the first round of the ECAC playoff...
...marshals grim details to demonstrate that no man would take to the road for any reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost...
Senior forward Kent Parrot and junior goalie Bill Diercks also made the Ivy second team. Parrot has made the All-Ivy team for three consecutive years. This is Carr's second year and Diercks's first on the squad...