Word: flaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will employ the devices and genres that best lend themselves to lyricism and incantation. The formal qualities of poetry become subject to dramatic techniques. Yevtushenko's art, such as it is, is shaped by these factors. The sound of "let's not" gave me the auditory vision of a flake of snow swaying downward against a winter landscape. Nothing wrong with that...
...certain equanimity. There is no White House consensus, however, on the potential opposition. Some in Nixon's high command think that Muskie would be the toushest man for the President to beat, believing that Muskie would unite most elements of the nation's majority party with the smallest flake-off at either end. Muskie could bring to television an effective counterimage to Nixon, as he did on election eve last November. Of Humphrey, Muskie and Kennedy, Nixon's political advisers think Humphrey would be the easiest to defeat. "He's got all those scars," says a Republican National Committee official...
...drawn characters are constantly absorbing. The production itself is in line with the high standards of the Loeb Ex so far this year. Jon Terry gives a strong performance as Joe Keller, supremely confident in himself when going through the motions of the American business man but is a flake otherwise. Ellen Olivier is superb as his troubled wife Kate who cannot perform the slightest duty without conveying the knowledge that she has lost a son in the way and has a crook for a husband. Jeff Melvoin is quite good at presenting the idealistic side of Chris Keller...
Even though each member of the city's 400-man narcotics street squads has at least one informant working for him, corrupt cops hungered for more. Logan testified that they sometimes threatened a man with a "flake," or false arrest, to force him to become an informant. Logan once approached a man selling wigs on a street in Harlem. He told the merchant that he would be arrested for possession of stolen goods unless he provided narcotics tips. He did. It was scarcely news when a subsequent witness, Paul Curran, chairman of the State Commission of Investigation, called...
...course of the hearing, a whole vocabulary of corruption came to light. A "juice joint" is an afterhours place where liquor is sold. A "flute" is a soda bottle filled with whisky for officers. A "flake" is an arrest made with false evidence in order to shake the man down. An "accommodation collar" is an arrest made on a minor charge in response to pressure from above for a crackdown...