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Banfield explained that his forth c?? book-The Unheavenly City-con?? the lectures which fornied the core ?? course when it was last given three ?? ago. Rather their duplicate reading ?? lectures, he decided to use his lecture ?? cover points not treated in the book ?? make sure that students read the ?? anyway...
...frenetically distributed his wealth ($60,000 in one day, by his own accounting), the poor, the greedy, the curious and the con men swarmed to his house in Scarsdale, N.Y., to stand in the 10° cold, waiting for handouts. The telephone company finally had to give him a new, unlisted phone number; incoming calls were paralyzing the local switchboard. In Manhattan, Brody rented an office on Broadway as a clearinghouse for his largesse. Ed Sullivan introduced him on television as "the wonderfully generous Michael James Brody," and the lad loosely strummed his guitar and sang a Bob Dylan song...
...same time. An unfortunate ending and about five minutes of execrable dialogue about the point-of-it-all mar the work-but the rest of the movie makes it easy to forgive the mistakes. The director is Sydney Pollack. Jane Fonda, hard as nails, and Gig Young, con man par excellence, give devastating performances...
...couldn't run a gas station at a profit even if he stole the customers' cars," bungles the operation and then sets out to knock off Baccala and his gang. Caught in the crossfire is a ludicrous love interest between Palumbo's sister and an artistic con man imported from Italy to take part in the aborted bike race...
Watson, in his original testimony con-cerning the incident, stated, "A group of people grabbed me and started to shove me out of the building. I recognized one as Offner, who was holding my right arm. They shoved me against a wall of people with enough force to knock several of them down...