Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge police yesterday announced a more rigid enforcement of local parking regulations. All cars now parked illegally on any posted street, will be towed away at the first offense...
...them. Into normal screening time, it crams 80 climactic minutes of the career of Heavyweight "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan). At 35, Stoker needs only a couple of stiff jolts to the head to become a punch-drunk derelict. Unwittingly, he saves himself by refusing to throw a fight. When local racketeers have finished teaching him a lesson, Stoker's right fist is a broken mess and his fight career is ended once & for all. To his wife (Audrey Totter), it is a happy ending...
...characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty lockerroom-the camera turns up an arresting assortment of local plug-uglies. Some of the character sketches are deftly sardonic; others-notably of ringside sadists-are heavily overdrawn...
...Lawton Story will get the same painstaking local promotion as Mom and Dad, and will wear the same trimmings. There will be an intermission for a "world famous lecturer," hawking another $1 pamphlet-"The Prince of Peace." Say the picture's pitchmen: "The film will move the most hardened sinner, comfort the most troubled." Says untroubled Live Wire Kroger Babb: "It's no sin to make a profit...
David B. Hill '51, Kirkland House student charged with disturbing the peace a week ago Saturday at the University Theater, will be represented in Superior Court sometime this week by his father, a local attorney...