Word: killers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncontrollable international food market, but the numerous, relatively unorganized and competitive farmers also have to buy from and sell to aggregations of vast economic power in the shape of oligopilistic farm machinery companies, food processors, packagers, distributors and retailers. Worse still, all these steps are integrated in one killer firm...
After the Mob's last overlord, Carlo Gambino, died of natural causes in 1976, New York's Galante strutted about the streets as though he were the anointed successor. Despite much press attention, the longtime bootlegger, drug king, racketeer and killer never reached the top. Law enforcement officials figure that Lillo now will be lucky just to keep on living and that his best chance of doing so rests upon protection from federal agents-the hated enemies who have kept him locked up for more than 20 years, one-third of his life...
...Hollywood again until 1976. It's good to have you back, Jane, but Klute almost sustained us through those barren years. Somehow thrillers where the characters matter seem richer in atmosphere and tension--and Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan J. Pakula though, who here, as in All the President's Men and the Parallax View, conveys...
...everybody so concerned about the rights of a killer? Capital punishment is not cruel and unusual because it perfectly fits the crime of murder...
...seemed possible we might work our way through a bottomless cup of coffee and a stack of chocolate chip pancakes in relative quiet, unhassled by anything more complicated than figuring out the tip. Lulled by the reassuring buzz of the enormous glowing purple fly killer on the wall, I only wanted to hunker down over my order, and check out my fellow urban refugees who crowded the place. As the night went on, however, the crowd grew stranger. Any hope of calm was destroyed, and a hasty retreat became the only course left...