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...Third Man is the co-feature on the Goodbye bill at the Welles, and this is one of the most wonderful mystery movies ever made. Orson Welles plays a blackmarket kingpin who is killed in an accident (or is he?) and Joseph Cotton plays the American writer who investigates the death. The story is hard to beat, the little touches (watch for the cat in the doorway) are brilliant, and Welles is Welles. The "Third Man Theme" is a catchy little accordian tune that tops off a great flick...
...demonstrated by orchestrating the Arab oil embargo, Saudi Arabia is the kingpin of world petroleum supply and prices. Last week it exercised its power once more, this time against the eleven other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
...once sense, he felt vindicated. They had gotten him in the end. All magnas, and yet one egomaniac English professor could screw him. It even made him feel important: These were not unimportant people who had set out to get him. This was the kingpin, the big fish...
...76ers, who finished with the worst record in the league, lost the coin toss for the first draft choice to the Portland Trailblazers, and to no one's surprise, Portland took the highly sought-after Bill Walton of UCLA. The Trailblazers actually have already signed the Briun kingpin to a five-year contract for more than $2 million...
...race gave the Tigers the confidence they needed and they won the Eastern Sprints Championship the following week, dethroning Harvard as the kingpin of lightweight crew, a title it had held for five straight years...