Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show business as a bomb Director Donen clearly intended to tell a shaggy-dog story the way John Huston did in his hilarious Beat the Devil but unfortunately, Donen's dog turns out to be all bark and no bite. The hero (Brynner) 'is a big-time hood deported from the U.S. to his native Greece and confined by the Greek government to a small Aegean island. The story evolves around his attempt to get back in the money by relieving an exiled king Noel Coward) of his million-dollar crown. Revolving ever more tediously, it goes down...
...Lincoln convertible rolled down the hill and straight into a filling station. The arresting blonde at the wheel told a solicitous mechanic that she was having trouble. He raised the hood, looked up wildly and announced: "Lady, you don't need a mechanic, you'd better call the police. Somebody stole your motor...
...black whore! You write about us and make lots of money, and then leave without sharing it." A drunken woman hurled a rock that gashed one of Carolina's two sons. Rocks struck Daughter Vera Eunice. As curses and the hail of stones grew, Carolina pounded on the hood, leaped aboard, and the driver roared through the mob. The favela-dwellers gave chase, brandishing clubs and rotten vegetables until the truck neared a police station. Then they fell away, and headed home...
Atrocities were not all on one side. The camisards terrorized the Catholic countryside. They rushed into battle singing psalms ("When those devils began singing their dreadful songs, we couldn't control our soldiers," complained an officer of the King). Roland kept their morale high by his Robin Hood exploits and hairbreadth escapes. In the end he was caught and executed, and finally the camisards were reduced to a remnant. But their struggle had crystallized public opinion against religious intolerance, and for 45 years (from 1715 to 1760) Calvinist Antoine Court labored to restore French Protestantism -organizing local and national...
...combat sagging auto sales, Stude-baker-Packard has given a new look to its 1961 line. The 1961 Lark will have a lower hood line, and the horsepower of its standard six-cylinder engine will be hiked from 90 to 112 (lack of power in the sixes was a major owner complaint). The company has also added the Lark Cruiser to the line. Designed to compete with the new luxury compacts, it has a iSo-h.p. V-8 engine, is 4 in. longer than the standard Lark, has a plush interior and dual headlights...