Word: coined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trio spends most of American Buffalo planning to burglarize the apartment of a coin collector who has recently appeared in the shop. But the men are gradually undone by their own inertia, mistrust and ineptitude. The job never conies off. At the end they draw together in a fragile bond of shared futility, human castoffs alongside the inanimate ones...
...individual side of the coin, the Crimson's best, Mike Desaulniers, who is too good for the team competition, advanced to the quarter-final round before succumbing to John Reese in a five-game masterpiece...
Haight said the introduction of coin books bearing the defendants' finger prints should have been declared inadmissable as evidence...
Shortly after midnight on December 2, 1973, the burglars told the nightwatchman they had left a package in the museum. When the nightwatchman responded, he found himself under gunpoint. He was then taped and blindfolded, and led up to the third floor coin room where the thieves ransacked the premises for the coins...
More a book for Dodger fans than for coin collectors, the consecutive assemblage of articles and photo essays dedicates its efforts to saving and revitalizing buildings that are communal symbols, to preserving, in this conglomerate and megalopolitan age, America's forgotten communities, be they towns, farms, neighborhoods, schools or City Halls...