Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moses got things done by hook or by crook. He blackmailed politicians into supporting his proposals by threatening to reveal dirt his "bloodhounds" had dug up--his dossiers were the terror of state politics. Triborough's vast patronage in the fields of construction, engineering, banking and insurance were doled on the basis of loyal support. Moses's opponents were ruthlessly blacklisted. His own brother--whose existence he never publicly acknowledged--was refused work as the qualified engineer he was because Moses had conceived a grudge against him. As the guardian of his brother's trust funds, Moses...
...bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.'" To complete the group there is the gentle failure of a father who lives in the past, and the small-time gangster with a heart of gold who can't express his more tender feelings and who is no more a crook than any capitalist...
...this affable, unambitious movie, Nightclub Comedian Jackie Mason appears as a grubby police informer named Roger Pittman, who heads for Miami and a big time with $7,500 from the police contingency fund. Brogan (Dan Frazer), the cop who lent Roger the money as a means to trap a crook, lights out after him. With a couple of days' head start, though, Roger is already spending like crazy. He installs himself in an expensive hotel room, acquires an eye-numbing resort wardrobe and falls in love with a lonely number from Long Island (Marcia Jean Kurtz...
Vietnam changed all that. It was a group of Harvard men, after all, that dragged us by hook and by crook into the war. And it was another group of Harvard men, serving another administration, that helped keep us in the war when most everyone else wanted out. If Harvard's image suffered because of Vietnam, that is well and just. Harvard's involvement in the war was nothing to be proud...
...Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974). Martin Sheen, who ably played Private Eddle Slovik on TV a couple of months ago, returns in this made-for-TV drama about the famous crook of the 1930s. Pretty Boy's real mother appears in a brief introduction. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...