Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James A. Sleeper in The New Jews. Many Jews insist, with stubborn existentialism, that a Jew is what he chooses to be. Yet the ends of the spectrum seem discernible enough?and some of the many shades in between. At one end, a very large group stresses the people-hood of Judaism, membership in a cultural and ethnic community that...
...empty movie set merely masquerading as a city. Of course they have missed the point. Los Angeles does have its own charged-up inner life and soul. It just isn't out on the sidewalks waiting for them. It lurks in a very strange place: under the hood of the automobile...
...roof, apply heaters (great phony silver pipes coming off the head of the engine, exiting from the sides of the car behind the front wheel, zipping, shiny chrome tubes, down the sides of the car and fastening just in front of the rear wheels), a mammoth hood scoop and delicate pinstripes all over to underline the changes...
Muskie had marched to Manchester's Notre Dame Church in a parade sponsored by four New Hampshire and Maine Snowshoe Clubs. Each club was represented by a marching band dressed in tunics. Robin Hood boots and beanie caps in the two technicolor shades of their town--purple and orange, fuchsia and black, mauve and tangerine Watching the tired, somber 6 ft. 4 in. Muskie, attired entirely in black from his Russian cap to the circles under his eyes, move into the midst of the Snowshoe groups to shake hands one might properly ask. "Who was the wiseacre film director...
...which they admire Steve McQueen's resilient cool. Authors Puzo and Talese are esteemed for their portraits of Mafiosi as "men of respect" (although Mafiosi feel that Talese, especially, was taken in by his sources). The alltime Mafia favorite, however, is the movie The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Basil Rathbone, who plays the villainous Sir Guy Gisbourne, is hissed at every appearance. He is the totally corrupt and power-hungry official that Mafiosi feel they know so well. Between Errol Flynn, as Robin, and the cheering Mafia audience there exists, as they might see it, a kind...