Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criminals who are romantic robin hoods, whether in moonshining or bank robbing; of green country just getting used to the presence of black topped roads and big new cars and cops and robber chases. It is a world which Bonnie and Clyde made famous, and Thieves often seems to lean too heavily on that earlier film, in scenes like the final, rather improbable shoot out at a motor court when the police fill the small frame cottage where the hero is holed up with about two or three minutes worth of solid lead. There is rather gratuitous use of slow...
Police have pieced together a description of the man by drawing on information from eyewitnesses to the shootings. He is between 20 and 30, from 5 ft. 9 in. to 6 ft., of medium build and lean face, with a thin mustache and possibly a goatee; he may wear a knitted cap. Some witnesses claim that there are two, possibly three assailants...
...free from squints, twitches or actual deformity). The villains do not stand a chance. They have to face the psychological weaponry of the Mulkerins' Indian friends (using ancient magical powers to scare the wits out of them). Those villains who survive face the actual hardware of other friends, "lean men and tall, with Mexican spurs and battered, flatbrimmed hats," in the inevitable shootout...
...members bring a range of political opinion to their meetings, ranging from Nickerson, who is a liberal Republican, to Calkins and Blum, who are active Democrats. Burr and Slichter are independents, while Bok and Putnam lean to the Democrats' side. Collectively, the Corporation is the most liberal it has ever been, a far cry from the days when Republican registration was an unstated requirement...
...birth to many sons and the common people could set up tents where they damn well pleased in the limitless domains of Big Mama because the only one who could oppose them had begun to rot beneath a lead plinth. The only thing left then was for someone to lean a stool against a doorway to tell this story, lesson and example for future generations, so that not one of the world's disbelievers would be left who did not know the story of Big Mama because tomorrow, Wednesday, the garbage men will come and will sweep up the garbage...