Word: juliuses
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...outlaw comes to the frontier town and idly levels it; the book is about weak humans who build it again though they know in their hearts it will probably be razed again. The Book of Daniel, his most recent work, is about the son of a couple like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed when he was a child, who is trying to live and grow with it. So what better for Doctorow than the era of ragtime--the most hopeful and buoyant, robust and adventurous time in American history, with Teddy Roosevelt president, the muscles of American imperialism first flexing...
Joan began living in 1973 with Julius Rogers, a Washington pool-hall operator with an unsavory local reputation. She was arrested last June with her younger brother Jerome and charged with stealing $850 worth of property from two mobile homes. Jerome turned state's evidence and got a three-year sentence; Joan later admitted her guilt but still received a stiff seven to ten years in prison. She had spent 81 days in the Beaufort jail, awaiting transfer to a women's correctional institution, when the killing occurred...
Directed by GUY GREEN Screenplay by JULIUS J. EPSTEIN...
...story of the widow Judith saving the Israelites by cutting off the head of Nebuchadnezzar's general, Holofernes, who was besieging Bethulia. Such killings, however, were defiant acts against a conqueror and thus not strictly foreign policy assassinations. Rome was sufficiently bloody with assassinations-the murders of Julius Caesar and Tiberius Gracchus, for example-but these were factional acts, intramural mayhem...
What is it worth to have lunch with New York's Jacob Javits in the Senate Dining Room? $325. To spend an evening with Summer Bartholomew, Miss U.S.A.? $1,000. To be able to jog around in a beat-up pair of sneakers once owned by Basketball Star Julius Erving? $201. These and other market values were set at what one TV critic described as "an upper-middle-class version of Let's Make a Deal," a nine-day fund-raising auction held onscreen by New York's public television station WNET. While some 500 celebrities acted...