Word: chinatown
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...four armed youths who invaded Johnny Kan's restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown last week were in no particular hurry. They moved easily from table to table, taking every purse and wallet they could find among the 70 diners. Then they wrapped up their loot-some $5,000-in a tablecloth and walked out. The management asked everybody to remain seated-and served dinner on the house...
...sway, accompanied by a roar that some people liken to the sound of a hundred freight trains. Huge cracks open in streets and sidewalks. Shaken loose by the violent vibrations, tons of glass and ornamental stonework tumble onto the streets, crushing pedestrians and automobiles. Many older buildings collapse completely. Chinatown's famed Grant Street becomes a death...
Still, he does bear the mark of his 19 years there. While in Boston, he eats many of his meals in Chinatown, an opportunity for home-style cooking he doesn't often get in Geneva. And, on a somewhat more profound level, his thought pattern and artistic aims are clearly Eastern in origin...
Heavy Acting. The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep got around these problems partly through strong writing and heavy acting power, but also because the genre was newer then. More recently, Chinatown combined a script of elegant complexity with the sort of terse romanticism that made the plot move with comparative ease. The Drowning Pool can boast only the formula without the chemistry-plus Paul Newman, reviving his Harper character of some ten years back...
...Third Men, 4:10, 7:45, And Then There Were None, 6, 9:40, through Saturday: The Conversation, 4, 8:30, Chinatown...