Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago Mary Lou would have been a cheerleader. And Spike a mean linebacker. Or else a hood. There's not much difference, in either case. They were athletes... and still are. Spike could sure Boogie...
...Valachi, it will be recalled, was a Brooklyn hood of the lower echelon who sang arias for the McClellan Committee in the fall of 1963, giving the general public its first peek into the intricacies of the Cosa Nostra. Peter Maas's bestselling Valachi Papers was based largely on the testimony, and the movie, if we are to believe the screen credits, is based upon Maas's book, although it could just as easily have been lifted from Dick Tracy's Crimestoppers Textbook. The entire cast, in fact, look as if they were drawn by Chester Gould...
...crossed over, pig," the black hood sneers at the black cop. "You're on the other side." Since this is a series that emphasizes Social Relevance 101-a basic course on TV these days-the hood in that episode is just a good ghetto boy who has been led astray, and the cop is good old Paddy on the beat. The black punk begins to find the right path, in fact, when the black cop (Georg Stanford Brown) and his white roommate (Michael Ontkean), another rookie, take him home to their apartment to protect him from the really...
...spell of unemployment in recent years. The overwhelming proportion of his tax benefits go to big business. The rich profit greatly from investment credits and advanced depreciation. In the short run, unfortunately, while the rich become wealthier the unemployed remain jobless. Richard Nixon is the modern version of Robin Hood he steals from the poor and gives to the rich...
...phony Rolls hood is attracting attention elsewhere: the executive offices of Rolls-Royce of America. "Our attitude," says a company spokesman, "is one of total contempt. The Rolls hood on a VW is like a giant's robe on the wizened body of a dwarf...