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Rival drug dealers are not the only victims. On one occasion last June, gunmen crept into a customs official's home and asked his small daughter to identify her father. She did-and watched in horror as he was shot 15 times...
...game crept on into the early hours. The players laughed and kidded and joked and then, when a big hand came up, everyone got silent for a while when the tension of money...
...year 1975 is going to be a Holy Year, said Pope Paul VI, so let's clean up the Holy City. His Holiness was not referring to litter. "A certain pornographic license and debased morals" have crept into Roman life, he said. Nude magazines have proliferated, and striptease has become a common art form in nightclubs. The pilgrims who visit Rome during a Holy Year are granted plenary indulgences for their sins, but it would hardly do for them to encounter too many temptations in the very city that the Pope called "custodian of memories which are among...
...prairie politician who won office in South Dakota by hopping out of his car to talk to farmers in the fields. Though charming and often witty in conversation, he can be downright dull on the hustings. In deference to the youth vote, McGovern's hair has crept down over his collar and he has taken to wearing flashy mod clothes, but his failure to create any sense of drama about himself and his convictions is the despair of his staff...
...excruciatingly sentimental that they stand to Picasso's work rather as the death of Little Nell does to Dickens'. At this early stage one can see, especially in the Rose Period, that urge toward nostalgic generalization that repeatedly crept into Picasso's art in later years. The circus performers in Family of Saltimbanques (8) are conceived in the manner of a Watteau fête champêtre, and Picasso apparently tried to rival the psychological tension of glance and gesture in that master's work; their fragile simplicity is idealized; it is a bruised, poor...