Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dorchester school repairs contractor got him into the headlines. Thievery, or the hint of it, is popular in a city that once elected a mayor after he had served a jail sentence for embezzlement of city funds. One could turn fraud into election if he attached a Robin Hood charisma to it. In the best James Michael Curley tradition. Kerrigan won in a landslide...
LEAN, sleek and impersonal as a hood ornament on a Pierce Arrow, Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space is far better known than its maker. It made headlines in 1926 when the U.S. Customs Bureau refused to let it in the country duty-free, claiming that it was not art but mere metal. In the comic-opera court proceedings that followed, a group of American art lovers won a modest but crucial ruling: that to be art, a work by a recognized sculptor need not bear a striking resemblance to a natural object. Whether or not the decision affected...
...people who brought you the Beatles, miniskirts, Tom Jones, cashmere sweaters and Robin Hood want to invite you to get to know some of us better...
...garment cutter from Russia, Skolnick dropped out of Roosevelt University, where he was an A student but required special transportation to the campus, which he could no longer afford. Later, he taught himself law at home and carved a full-time career as a sort of modern day Robin Hood for the law's many losers...
...body of Polanski's pregnant wife, Actress Sharon Tate, 26. She was clad in a bikini nightgown. A nylon cord, looped around her neck and passed over a beam, linked her body to that of Jay Sebring, 35, who had been her beau before her marriage. A hood covered Sebring's head, but the two appeared to have been stabbed or shot, not hanged. "It seemed kind of ritualistic," said one of the officers investigating the case...