Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural fault line, the characters around him are bizarre monoliths. His boss, Bruno Glober, spends working hours slathering over skin magazines and evenings spreading around huge sums of cash raked in from an interest in an international slacks cartel. The homicide squad itself includes such legends of cop-hood as Detective Teener, who has been so chipped away by criminals' bullets that his body is composed almost entirely of spare parts, and Detective Medici, the Dean of Child Molestation. Put with all the robust vulgarity and double-entendre that Bruce Friedman obviously intends, the book's central issue...
Performance casts Mick as a freaky rock singer who has given it all up and lives in a cavernous house in Notting Hill with two handmaidens, a little girl, some draperies, a few pastel pillows and a lot of dope. Into this heady atmosphere comes a hood on the lam (James Fox) who rents the downstairs room as a hideout. The hood corrupts the singer, the singer corrupts the hood, and the two handmaidens (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton) just hang around, giggling a lot and getting into bed and king-sized bathtubs with anyone available. The film, which pretends...
...Kelly is a Tony Richardson movie about a legendary Australian bandit, a kind of 19th century Robin Hood. In the title role, Mick sticks up banks and shoots a lot of policemen. But he pays for all that fun. As the hangman slips the inevitable noose around his neck, Jagger looks straight into the camera and says: "Such is life...
...members whose names are national household words. Two of the leading academicians in the class, however, are city planner Charles Eliot, who taught at the School of Design, and composer Randall Thompson, who taught in the College's music department. Other men of interest include Gilbert Hood, of Hood Milk, hawkish Congressman Philip J. Philbin (D-Mass.), Sidney Rabb, owner of Stop and Shop, and Franklin Vorenberg, president of Gilchrist's and father of the Harvard Law professor, Hood solicited $400,000 this year for the class gift...
...stately homes into tourist traps. Yet the Duke of Bedford invited the Marauess of Bath to open his $2,500,000 "Wild Animal Kingdom" at Woburn Abbey. Only the animals refused to cooperate. As Bath drove around the preserve in his Bentley, a lion named Reggie leaped onto the hood. Three baby elephants had charged him as he cut the blue ribbon. When Bath held his ground, 450-lb. Tess trampled his foot. Lamely, his lordship predicted success for Bedford's menagerie...