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...Bristol-Myers into the moviemaking field is not likely to mean any loss to art, for art has seldom had any direct relationship with the box office. Doubleday's Robert Banker, however, insists: "Our rule is going to be that we will produce things that will entertain and be provocative." Says G.E.'s Moore: "We just would not be interested in producing R and X pictures. But, more important, G and GP are where the long-range values in the negatives exist. They are products with longevity...
...happening or fled in fear of more gunfire. There were confused shouts of "They got Joe! Joe's dead!" As word that the assailant was black rippled through the crowd, shock gave way to anger. Several blacks were roughed up. One, a musician who had been hired to entertain later in the day, was beaten by five or six men as onlookers shouted, "Kill him! Kill...
...Poland; of a heart attack; in his prison cell in Dusseldorf, Germany. During 1942 and 1943, when he ran Treblinka, Stangl supervised the slaughter of over 400,000 people. Wearing a spotless white SS jacket and sporting a long riding crop, he often arranged for brass bands to entertain his captives as they were herded into Treblinka's infamous gas "showers." Captured by American troops and turned over to Austrian authorities, Stangl escaped in 1947 and fled to Brazil, where he worked as a mechanic in a Volkswagen plant before he was tracked down in 1967. At that time...
...freshmen ran out of their dorms in the Yard and followed the crowd up to Lesley for a panty raid. It was a big deal, for it was hard to see women unclad at night then; freshmen could only "entertain members of the opposite sex" for three hours a day during mid-afternoon...
...some psychopath carve up a few nurses, or someone shoot a cop over in Brighton and we'll never hear the end of it. Journalism consists of the substitution of an event's dramatic elements for the event itself; newspapers and magazines are drama by other means. Let me entertain...