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...their town on film. But more important, it is a detailed portrait of organized crime that avoids the mythification of The Godfather. Based on the novel by George V. Higgins, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who worked mainly on organized crime, the film is notable for the same clear, crisp dialogue found in the book--it led Norman Mailer to write, "What I can't get over is that so good a first novel was written by the fuzz." Robert Mitchum plays aging small-time gangster Eddie "Fingers" Coyle...
Unfortunately, the fluke goal typified the kind of game the two teams played all afternoon. It was not your standard 5-0 Crimson rout; Harvard displayed little of the crisp passing and overpowering offense which characterized Crimson soccer teams of the past. To be brutally honest it was nothing but plain old mediocre soccer all game long and boring soccer at that...
Allende slept only five hours a night and spent most of his waking hours wording. "To work for the people is really a pleasure," he once said grandiosely. Allende impressed visitors as a crisp administrator. He was a hard man but not a ruthless one. An American diplomat who knew him remarked that "when it comes to leaning on people to do something, Allende makes Lyndon Johnson look like a piker...
Craig Claiborne, publisher of a private food newsletter and former New York Times food critic: "The hamburgers are quite swallowable. There is a highly compatible onion flavor. The French fries are first-rate; they are made in fresh fat and are crisp. I do think they could put more pickle on the hamburger. Overall, I would rank them on a par with Howard Johnson's hamburgers...
...whirling curiously around on his straps, and he landed over a clump of trees behind the stage. Later, three skydivers jumped amidst the lightning with three red flares held in their hands. The next day, the newspapers reported one of the skydivers had been killed, burned to a crisp by his flare before he hit the ground. The only one who seemed out of control, like a dead weight, was the first diver. But by the time I saw him floating down, there was no flare. Also in the papers was the report that 8 people died in automobile crashes...