Word: fella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language here outrages my sense of decency," said Adlow, Poppio suggested that "contemporary community standards" were not the opinions of one individual. "I consider myself a broad-minded fella," said Adlow, who is 71. "And, on the basis of a broad-minded fella's morals, I think Avatar is a filthy, illegal newspaper." Marshall Smith said last night that his stores would probably not sell Avatar until the case is decided in the higher courts. "It is unfair," Smith said, "to employees to expose them to this sort of prosecution. But I disagree vehemently with this decision...
There is this fella Gus Ferrarri, whose wife is three people: Eloise ("round and sensual"), Rebecca ("wiry"), and Lila ("boneless"). Gus is 45, a 32nd-degree schizo who does not venture outside his New York apartment for 30 months; he is building a room within a room to become "the inside of his own skin." His three-year-old son asks him: "You're Mommy, aren't you?" The answer: "No. Your mommy is dead. Understand that! . . . All the mommies are dead. I am a monster who makes all the mommies die; I am a mommy-murdering monster...
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...round by Sonny Listen. Even on his back, Williams was impressive. Part Negro, part Cherokee, he stands 6 ft.2½in. and weighs 215 lbs.; his reach is 83 in. (4 in. longer than Clay's), and his 48-in. chest tapers to a 32-in. waist. "That fella could be great if he was trained properly," Benbow decided, and in 1962 bought up his contract for $20,000. Over the next two years, Williams won seven fights, lost only one, developed a thunderous right-hand punch to go with a devastating left hook. Finally, in November...
Dominate the Subject. Can he? In Minneapolis in 1962, John F. Biron, 18, admitted mugging an old woman, who later died. Accidentally, his lawyer discovered a police tape that showed how Biron had endured hours of relentless grilling by two hypnotic detectives. ("You're the fella's gonna determine how long you're gonna be buried. You got the shovel. You're diggin' the hole.") Only the tape showed how the detectives had repeatedly lied in promising to send Biron to juvenile court, even though he was legally an adult. When he talked, they charged...