Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have yet to give up. This week, for the third time in nine months, Con Ed announced that it would begin construction on the Storm King plant within a month...
...Con Ed's announcement came after the New York Public Service commission granted approval of a $200-million contract between the utility and three out-of-state construction companies, and it was this approval Con Ed stressed in its statements...
What the utility was not talking about was that three court cases remain pending against the Storm King project, and that Con Ed does not yet have all the land it needs--including 300 acres belonging to Harvard--to build the plant...
...modern, well-lighted classroom and begins self consciously to read from his manuscript. It is the rollicking story of a predawn police raid on the upstate New York home of LSD Guru Timothy Leary. The informally dressed audience - 29 other inmates and an instructor who is himself an ex-con - laughs appreciatively at the description of troopers peering inside, hoping for a glimpse of porno films but seeing only flickering psychedelic lights. When the cops finally storm the place, they find no orgy, no mob of spaced-out kids. Instead, Leary, dressed in white pajamas, comes politely downstairs to greet...
Altman omits what is expectable in movies of this sort and includes the scenes that other film makers have left out. Bowie (Keith Carradine) is a young con who busts out of prison with a couple of older buddies (John Schuck, Bert Remsen) into the grim realities of the Depression South. Because they figure it to be no more antisocial than starvation, the trio start to rob small-town banks. They do it with matter-of-fact efficiency, and Altman treats them in the same even way. He is not concerned with the mechanics of the heist but the social...