Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn raid on the home of Starship Captain Gorski, FBI officials find the remaining HSA refrigerators, President Bok's missing paintings and Widener's missing books. During his booking, Gorski mutters, "I am not a crook...
...Interaction Program at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan believes: "We've become a very materialistic and success-oriented society that is tremendously influenced by mass communication, particularly TV. The effect on children is to indulge them into thinking they can do anything?but that, by hook or by crook, they need to have money to be successful. We're talking about a nation at high risk to having a gambling problem; it is a nation susceptible to gambling...
...THIS WAY of getting even impresses us as cynical, Malle certainly helps the decadence along. When the thief runs into his family priest during his getaway, one suspects he might repent. No need to, though, because the good curate turns out to be a master crook himself. The hypocrisy of it all sounds funny, but Malle's somber colors and slow pace stop the irony like a wad of lint in our throats. This should be a black humor giggle-fest, but nobody is laughing...
...dark, damp, declining metropolis becomes for Theroux like reading that dark, damp, declining novelistic form of sharp turns and blind alleys, the thriller. As in T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, to which The Family Arsenal seems to invite comparison, the characters emerge at first as anonymous voices: a crook prowling a seedy riverside district; an accountant who refuses to yield his house to a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood, an aristocratic woman who collects people like souvenirs. But, as the characters are unmasked with the gradually unwinding plot, each one's terror and terrorizing begins to look and sound more and more...
...MORE], for one. Or less, for that matter. Conspiracy abounds. Takeover conspiracies. Undue influence conspiracies. Creamy peanut butter conspiracies. Extra. Read all about it. Discredited former vice-crook-president charges Jewishes with Zionist sympathies and media control. That's just the cover story. Inside, how (in not so many words) the re-accredited former seed salesman from Plains creamed his way into New York Times headlines, and Memphis-blues-cooed his wormy fishhook into the tangled pickle that is Hunter Thompson's heart...