Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first encounter with the myth of Spain came, as I imagine it does with many Americans, through Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Jake, the narrator, is a sullen American expatriate who, frustrated in love, goes to Spain to carouse his solitude away at the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona. Every July a good part of Spain converges on this northern city for a seven-day orgy of wine-drinking and bull-fighting. The bulls selected for each day's contest are run through the city's streets, on the heels of all those brave (and crazy) enough...
Spain also attracted less political types, the Robert Jordans of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. This is not the aimless, rootless Jake in Pamplona, but a committed American from Idaho who leaves his post as a schoolteacher to help the Spanish people defend their liberty. Jordan--laconic, straightforward, and uncomplicated--joins a group of Spanish peasants working behind the Nationalist lines and, while working with them to blow up an enemy supply bridge, comes to feel less of an alien among these backward people. In the three tense days of preparation he senses his impending death, almost kills...
...THIS BUSINESS," says Jack Nicholson--as J.J. "Jake" Gittis, private detective specializing in marriage difficulties, flushing his suave taunting smile and slender silver cigarette case--"you gotta have finesse." Nicolson does. And so, in this business of making thirties atmosphere detective thrillers, does Roman Polanski. He's made Chinatown the best film so far this year, an unpretentious homage to thirties detective flicks, the kind of tense story where the reviewer forgets to take notes about half-way through...
Unwanted Bills. A fraction of the amount pledged by the producers -namely, $10,000-went to Jake Jacobsen, an Austin, Texas, attorney who was close to Connally. The milk producers instructed Jacobsen to turn the money over to Connally, who would then distribute it to deserving congressional candidates. In his testimony to the grand jury, Jacobsen said that he offered it to Connally, but his fellow Texan refused to take it. Much like the $100,000 campaign gift from Howard Hughes to Bebe Rebozo, the cash was reputedly placed by Jacobsen in a vault in a bank-an Austin bank...
...fully known by federal probers, but it clearly included huge campaign contributions to many candidates for national and state offices. What the milk producers were after, of course, was higher prices for their products. At a meeting in Washington on Aug. 4, 1970, former AMPI Attorney Jake Jacobsen advised officers of the cooperative that "one way a small group makes itself heard is to help the politicians get into office. It works the same way from the President on down...