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...possible corroborating figure in the ITEK photo is much less convincing than the Willis, but taken together with Moorman #5 it does seem to show a balding man grasping a straight object in his right hand and resting it on his left forearm...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: An Amateur Sleuth Fights A 'Civil War' | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...circulation of people resumes. Uncle constantly circumnavigates the hall. He is a small, squat man who appears to be literally easier to flatten than knock over. He advances like a boxer, stopping before the more loud-mouthed, hence less important, kids to draw back his fist and flex his forearm. Violence diffuses through the room like the smoke, and it is easy to forget that the friendly shoves are shoves. Then maybe a drunk comes in. Vic says to the stranger, "Go now. That kid in blue is drunk. He's crazy when he's drunk." The drunk manages...

Author: By John D. Reed and Charles F. Sabel, S | Title: THE NORTH END | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...four minutes the gallants scuffled and grunted, until Defferre nicked Ribière on the wrist and then opened a small cut on his forearm. At that point, the loser allowed as how honor had been satisfied. "He's still a moron," said Defferre. "It's congenital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1967 | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...dagger, rather than with the body, which is scarcely examined and then only for a second's slap across the cheeks to be sure it's really dead. In the film's most immediately powerful sequence, he spells out his self-disgust by carving "FOOL" in his forearm with a razorblade. The scene is beautifully shot with relentlessly detached clinicism that is almost unbearable. In Lerner, Hunter has faithfully recorded the conventions of the French/American tough guy: his slovenlieness, his resistance, his attempt to be sphynxlike. But in the character's most Bogartian moment, a curl...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: Sinister Madonna | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...women like to rest at the very base of the steps. They lean against a side block or let their bodies sag forward until only the support of a forearm wedged between chin and knee prevents them from closing completely around themselves. A vinyl handbag lies near-by and its bright color is a surprise against the grey stone and gray...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: The Steps of Widener | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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