Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUST AROUND THE CORNER: A HIGHLY SELECTIVE HISTORY OF THE THIRTIES, by Robert Bendiner. A wry recollection of the not-so-long-ago days of 3.2 beer, 5? apples. $4-a-month domestics and the Great Depression...
Second Collision. The loan extension will give A.M.C.'s new Javelin specialty car room to go into production this fall. Still, some auto-industry financial men fear that Chapin and his colleagues are only painting themselves into a corner. Should Kelvinator go the way of Redisco, A.M.C. may well lose a chance at a Studebaker-style recovery. After losing $25 million on its auto operations, Studebaker shut down its South Bend, Ind., plants in 1963, has since come back as a profitable maker of appliances, electric generators and other products. Wall Street has been full of speculation about possible...
Somewhere in the upper left hand corner of Robert Downey's mind dances a little vaudevillian with cane and striped hat. Downey often discusses his work with him. The product of their collaboration is the most excellent and funny Chafed Elbows...
...Blackstone sidewalk, there are turnips to the left, genoa salami to the right. The meat shops go in for variety. Capicollo. Mortadella. Proscuttino. Pepperoni. Eight different kinds of salami, including carando milanese and d'annuzio. May we suggest some Bunker Hill Baloney? The butcher men whisper loudly like dark corner procurers. "Hey, buddy, you want some nice chops? How 'bout it? I got some nice steak in here. You want some nice steak...
Perhaps twenty kids, aged 16 to 20, are regulars. They stand, smoking, laughing, now beginning a game of Kelly or eight ball, now leaving one of the four tables, game unfinished, to join a circle that has appeared suddenly in a corner. All but two or three are dressed rat: pointy, black pants, dark jacket, overcoat with sharp lapels and a shiny finish...