Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three men he presents us with are for the most part fully believable in a believable if distant situation. One of the three, tough guy Bogart, illustrates the motif of the film, that "gold can destroy men's souls," his degeneration coming almost in retribution for his claim that he is immune to the poison of the yellow dust. The other two seem ready to yield also, but they do not, and we are left...
Bumped Off. The reasons were as complex-and sometimes as absurd-as the Indians themselves. Some Indians still seethe with resentment. Grumbled Arizona Apache Jesse Stevens about Hollywood's cowboy-and-Indian movies: "One white guy always managed to kill off a bunch of Indians. They should try hiring some of us sometime so we can show them how real Indians act. I was in a bit part once in an Alan Ladd picture. I got bumped off just like [finger-snap] that...
...when the National Assembly duly mowed down Socialist Guy Mollet by a vote of 290 to 227, and the French national radio did not even bother to stay on the air to announce the result. But it was also the fifth week of the crisis. Irritably, conscientious President René Coty, 75, summoned his confidential aide, barked: "I want a man tonight. Get me Felix Gaillard...
Lorenz remembers standing for six hours on a packed express train that runs between Belgrade and Athens. "We played gin rummy," he said. "One guy was the table--his right hand for the discard pile and his left for drawing...
...Some. A nut once asked me to do his sandals and wouldn't pay 'cause I got black on his stocking. He had a beard like Lincoln. One guy always makes me polish the tip of his shoe laces." That exhausted his list of Unique Persons. "Do you like to shine shoes...