Word: guying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lots of repressed conflicts to tell about. Carlin grew up in Morningside Heights in New York City during the repressive '50s. His was a working class Irish-Catholic neighborhood ("We were a National League neighborhood," he adds), and Carlin's archetypal second-generation Irish street-guy was roaming the trashy streets at night mad, contriving ways to defy who ever crossed his path. Unlike many of his friends, Carlin went to a "progressive Catholic school" and was spared such stimuli as corporal punishment and uniforms. He looks back on his "class clown" days and sees ironies that were never apparant...
...mechanics of the switch are easy: all oil looks the same, and it is just a matter of falsifying paper work to hide its origins. The risks of being caught have been small-up to now. As one federal investigator told TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch: "All an oil guy had to do was look at the enforcement procedures and laugh...
Ignorance leads to tragedy. Melchior (Boyd Gaines), an iconoclast-charmer, imparts some explicit sexual information to his friend, the ironically self-deprecating Moritz (Richard Frank). Flunking, engulfed in guilt, though innocent of sin, Moritz commits suicide. Avid for love, woefully unprepared by her mother (Rebecca Guy), Wendla (Kathryn Dowling) becomes pregnant by Melchior and dies during an abortion...
...tentative of new citizens begins to sound like a charter member of the D.A.R. Ask David John Bickerstaff, 32, a British automotive engineer who moved to Detroit in 1973, owns a four-bedroom home with swimming pool and a vacation cottage in northern Michigan. "When I meet a cynical guy in the U.S.," says Bickerstaff, "I tell him: 'Why don't you go to England and live? You'll come back a happy American.' " -Michael Demarest
...Rolls-Royce but a Ford LTD-and headed west. He stopped in Las Vegas and lost some money gambling, but just a modest amount. He drifted on to Oregon, and when he was picked up in Portland, he still had $88,000 left. Said one cop: "A guy who has lived modestly all his life doesn't suddenly become Mr. Big Spender...