Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening sequence that roughly sets the tone, two hoods, contracted by Con Man Ronald Reagan, show a fine flair for menace as they trail Cassavetes to a school for the blind, where they pummel a winsome blind receptionist. In another scene, they threaten to parboil a man sweating off pounds in a steam cabinet, thus warming up for the moment when they thrust leggy Angie Dickinson headfirst out the window of a skyscraper hotel room, trying to make her tell what happened to the $1,000,000 swag from a mail robbery...
...anti-hero tends to overlook this fascinating half-truth, which is the durable paradox at the core of Oedipus Rex and Othello. But Ken Kesey used it well in his short, cruelly focused first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy, laughing con man and indestructible alley fighter, cons his way into an insane asylum to escape the drudgery of a prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward, and he beats her every round except the inevitable last one. And, capering defiantly toward the lobotomist's knife...
...many of the rooms groups sat in front of television sets and watched vice-presidential nominee William E. Miller, Richard M. Nixon, and Senator Barry M. Goldwater address the final session of the Republican National Convention. Very few Scranton supporters went to the Con-Palace today...
...Con Ed engineers admit that other sites in the same area could be used. They claim, however, that the Cornwall location, is by far the most economical, and would save the company $13 million a year...
About the only people favoring Con Ed's plans are the Cornwall villagers. The plant will add $50 million to the present $6 million assessed valuations, and produce $500,000 a year in additional taxes. This year the village budget is only...