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...oystermen who cannot chop through the ice in Chesapeake Bay. Soaring prices for fruit and vegetable crops damaged by the freeze are giving a new push to inflation. Worse, even if the weather should warm up suddenly, which hardly seems likely, many economic effects of the Big Freeze will linger on into the spring and beyond...
...uttering an occasional shout of "Assassins!" quickly hushed by the marshals. It was an impressive display of organization and control on the part of the Communist Party. But the week of bloodshed and disorder that occasioned it was proof to Spaniards that their country's old demons still linger, imperiling what had been a measured march toward democracy...
...judge"-15 years. Vergari does not suspect Sam Bronfman of involvement. He said flatly: "I am convinced that Lynch and Byrne are guilty. I wouldn't have tried them if I wasn't convinced." Nevertheless, in the minds of many people, a cloud of suspicion will inevitably linger over Sam Bronfman...
...nation's retailers hope that their cash registers will start ringing up glad tidings of heavy sales. But how to make those expectations come true? One way is to turn big department stores into shoppers' lures-places where customers will go to find one item, then linger to buy others. That takes design, and one man with the kind of designing eye that merchants appreciate is a 36-year-old architect-artist named Kenneth Walker. He is something of an iconoclast, merrily discarding what he calls "formula work-all those fancy chandeliers and moldings" in favor of fresher...
Fair enough, we decide. Ripping off the rich is not necessarily a spiritual job. But why does Malle linger so long over the process, over the awkward thumps and collapsing objects? Belmondo appears in a marvelous Magritte poster-like costume--mustache, bowler hat and all--and we feel primed for a rakish romp. So why the dragging start? Perhaps the ensuing flashbacks into this life of crime will lend a clue...