Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stations overnight, bedding down in the back of the car with a pistol for protection. At dawn, he would shave in the station's rest room, eat a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast and then hit the road. "I learned sellin' encyclopedias," says Driesell, "that if you knock on enough doors, you'll find somebody who wants what you're sellin...
...Getaway is basically a streamlined heist-and-chase movie, but Peckinpah keeps stumbling over his subplots. Moreover, his two stars, Steve McQueen and All MacGraw, are unregenerately narcissistic. They appear as a husband and wife, professional thieves, who knock over a small-town Texas bank and spend the rest of the time speeding across the state to Mexico, pursued by the cops and crews of greedy confederates...
Soon after Corkery's breakaway, Hynes checked and decked-Cornell's Dave Street, a 190-pound defenseman who tried to knock down anyone who neared the Cornell nets throughout the game. Street teamed with Gunar Skillins, a sophomore who received three penalites from Threadgold and numerous insults from the stands...
...step, a premature Marxist, a premature anti-Communist." His students best remember him as a teacher who, as one of them put it, "pounds, pounds, pounds away at us." Says another: "Sure, we have class discussions, but you really have to think before you speak or he'll knock you down in one second...
...call this bit of New York City crime busting a new low in senseless brutality, racial exploitation and pandering to an audience. However, it only fits a pattern set by such sleazy predecessors as Cool Breeze and Super Fly. Three black hoods who are down on their luck knock over a numbers bank in Harlem, getting away with $300,000 and killing a couple of cops and a gaggle of gangsters. The constabulary, the Mafia and the black crime organization that ran the bank each embark on a separate campaign to bring the bandits to rights and, of course, start...