Word: lis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edwin Rommel, 50, of Utica, N.Y., on the other hand, already knows what a million looks like. In 1958 Rommel and lis family started collecting pennies in a glass jar. By last Thanksgiving he reached his goal of 1 million, which he stored in rolls of 50 in a footlocker. Last week the penny pincher deposited the 3½ tons of coppers in a bank, and promptly wrote out a check for a $7,500 Cadillac...
Kennedy's suit coat, the front ripped apart by frenzied doctors trying to save lis life, and his bloodstained shirt were mounted on a mannequin and used to illustrate the path of one shot. All too vivid sketches showed the exact entry point of the bullet that shattered the President's skull. There was prolonged discussion about what had happened to the President's lower brain after the autopsy. It had apparently been buried at the request of Robert Kennedy...
There is unlikely to be much blame in the case of Heaven Can Wait. Besides contributing a likable and funny performance as the movie's hero, Beatty has brought out the best in lis collaborators. May's work on the script is her wittiest since A New Leaf: she has spiked a sentimental story with misanthropic jokes about money, marriage and adultery that are not in the old film. Grodin and Cannon, who have May's sharpest lines, give impeccable, dry comic performances. Some of the humor?involving batty butlers and rough football players?is knockabout, but the gags never...
Politicizing sport, a dangerous business, is never more seductive than when one wanders in Montreal. In suburban Verdun, swarms of children trying to win a midget hockey tournament skate under a flag showing white fleur-de-lis on a field of blue. The flag symbolizes Quebec and French Canadian nationalism. In the Forum, one finds Les Canadiens de Montreal defending their National Hockey League championship in a setting that proclaims élan. Forum announcements on goals are bilingual. Always the French-"Montréal but par Yvan Cournoyer "-comes first. Watching Canadiens named Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire outskate visiting...
...rapes her. On page 86 he ties her to a bedpost and assaults her again. On page 192 the hero rips the heroine's gown to the waist before raping her a third time. On page 277 he brands her thigh with a red-hot fleur-de-lis...