Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wealthy foreigners are lining up with their less fortunate countrymen at U.S. Immigration desks. The new arrivals are not jet-setters here for a month-long shopping spree or speculators merely stopping off to tuck away foreign currency in U.S. investments. They are ambitious entrepreneurs and professionals ready to catch the go-go spirit, to buy homes and consider citizenship in the nation that, for the present at least, offers them attractive business opportunities and an amenable society. "Ten years ago, everything was based on England," says Sahir Erozan, 27, a Turkish immigrant who owns Cafe Med, a luxe nightclub...
...last thing you notice about Prizzi's Honor is that the credits at the end of the film roll by too fast for you to catch the names of any of the actors except the two main stars...
Thieves steal with impunity, but it is not much use complaining to the police, who do little except direct traffic these days. It is occasionally possible to protest to whatever militiamen control the neighborhood; they sometimes catch a criminal and deal out rough justice. Then again, the robbers might be their comrades. For self-protection, many Beiruti men -- even if they , are not affiliated with one or another militia -- carry guns tucked under their belts, and women have neat little .38s stashed away in their purses...
...still in the area, and you're a fan of the band Santana, you can catch them at 6 p.m. tonight performing at this summer's second in the Concert on the Common series (tickets...
...Leica, the first popular 35-mm camera. During his early years in Paris, he was still shooting with a box camera into which a glass plate negative had to be inserted before every shot. The Leica, a lightweight instrument with film on a frame-advance roll, enabled photographers to catch slices of life on the wing. For Kertesz, it made possible subtle and serendipitous pictures like Meudon, a strangely arresting image in which a man is simply crossing the street in one direction while a train passes by over-head, going the other way. It makes no "narrative" sense...