Word: knocking
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Safe Targets. For better or for worse, this is a fairy tale, not a cutting satire. Neither the bullets nor the issues are real. Dick and Jane pick only safe targets; they knock over a telephone company office and win a round of applause from the queue of bill payers. Briskly propelled by Director Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), they skim through their adventures as innocently as a pair of prankish collegians. The only laws they are unable to flout are the iron laws of comic contrivance. They must, it seems, receive an implausible invitation to a party...
...Gilmore insisted on Marciano, then added that he was starting a bank account for her and putting in $500. He also bought her a ten-speed bike. And a book on Muhammad Ali. "I will always love you honey. You're a beautiful wonderful little girl ... Knock 'em all out. For me. Hugs and kisses, xxoooxxxo...
...handsome Brock, heir to a candy making fortune, is a good nuts-and-bolts organizer who is conservative enough for Reagan's people though he backed Ford for the presidency last year. He has opposed foreign aid and handgun licensing, but did vote with the liberals against no-knock legislation...
...sentiment came naturally: Fraser is a veteran of the auto plants. Born in Glasgow, he came to the U.S. at six. Though his electrician father managed to work on and off through the Depression, Fraser recalls hopping aboard slow-moving railroad gondolas to knock off a few chunks of coal to carry home for heating. After graduating from high school in Detroit, he went to work at Chrysler's De Soto plant and, faithful to his father's socialist leanings, quickly drew notice as a union agitator. By age 26, he was president of his local, where...
...Knock, Knock, who's there? The Trinity Square Repertory Company with Jules Feiffer's silly comedy at the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St., Boston. Plays Tuesday through Friday at 8, Saturday 6 and 9:30, and Sunday at 3 and 7:30. Call 426-6912 for info...