Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robin Hood and men of steel...
...pair, who would identify themselves only as "Robin Hood and a merry man"--because they feared retaliation from the "bourgeois Ad Board"--said they stole the toilet paper from bathrooms in William James Hall early Tuesday morning...
...eases out of the car and walks, slowly, over to the hood and pulls it open. He mutters under his breath--he can't understand why "they" broke into his car. The battery is still there but the ignition has been tampered with. The officer asks his affiliation with Harvard. "I don't do anything at Harvard," he answers unperturbed. The officers are puzzled. The straightforwardness of his answer brings smiles to their faces, because the parking lot is reserved for Harvard affiliates. "I'm a retired colonel in the Corps of Engineers," the man quickly retorts...
...huge set pieces come off a bit better, especially so in the case of a tumultuous fight scene that parallels the climax of Rocky. But it is really around its fringes that Paradise Alley becomes interesting. Kevin Conway, as a James Cagney-inspired hood, brings savage, roughhouse wit to some incidental barroom scenes. In the expendable role of a has-been black wrestler, Frank McRae is a knockout. Though playing a slow-witted loser without money or friends, this actor retains a delicate sense of dignity. His two brief scenes carry more emotional weight than all the rest of Paradise...
...apparently taken the white uniforms off the Nestle milk nurses, but it still ememploys such persons to peddle its products. This action is like taking the uniforms off the members of a firing squad, or the hood off the hangman...