Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Altered Appearance. Shirley Kremen, using an alias, had rented the lonely four-room hideout in June. A tidy housekeeper, she kept a plentiful supply of canned goods, liquor and beer on hand, and $2,000 in sugar-bowl money. When she was arrested, she had just washed a man's white sweater and spread it neatly on a towel to dry. The men stuck close to the cabin, avoided the neighbors, whiled away the time with TV and table tennis. Thompson and Steinberg had gone to some pains to alter their appearances. Thompson, who had gained about...
This was no military coup, but a spontaneous popular uprising; individual soldiers joined, but not a single army unit came in. Not until 4 p.m., when an air force general appeared before General Zahedi's hideout with a tank, did Zahedi emerge and take command of a field already won. The General-Premier and his officers were as surprised by the victory as the people themselves. The army had planned to counterattack Mossadegh on Friday; the people beat them to it by two days...
...over, not a shot fired. In the face of Mossadegh's overwhelming control, the Shah's belated assertion of his constitutional prerogative was made to seem like an attempted coup, and Mossadegh, the usurper, to personify law & order. Belatedly, from a hideout in the mountains, a brave follower of the Shah's, General Fazlollah Zahedi, onetime Senator, proclaimed himself Premier. He had royal decrees from the Shah, he said, dismissing Mossadegh. As recently as a year ago, Teheran would have rung with the news; now it caused no stir...
...City Is Dark tells its story leanly. The script is crisply underwritten, the photography has a raw, grimy look, and Andre De Toth's direction is skillfully paced for tension. In its harsh images of a bank holdup, a gangster hideout and homicide headquarters, and in its soundtrack teeming with the discordant sounds and gritty lingo of the underworld, The City Is Dark is a muscular little thriller that carries more conviction than many more high-toned movie melodramas...
...called them The Rhythm Boys and featured them on tour. Says Bing: "We laid them out in sections-we fractured them." Bing adds that he also fractured himself with too much booze, too little work, and too many unlikely companions. He woke up after one binge in a mobster hideout with police machine guns playing chopsticks on the door...