Word: lock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nathan Zuckerman has made a million dollars with Carnovsky, an ethnic and sexual extravaganza that resembles Portnoy's Complaint. Zuckerman's problem is not sex but a reluctance to indulge in the conventional rewards of his money and fame. Says André Schevitz, his agent: "First you lock yourself away in order to stir up your imagination, now you lock yourself away because you've stirred up theirs...
...boot, already in use in Boston is a metal wheel lock that makes it impossible for a car to be driven until it is unlocked and removed. And it isn't unlocked and removed until parking tickets are paid off. And until a $25, unlocking and removing fee is paid...
...maks the library and its services an even more fundamental necessity in the lives of all of us, to turn the argument of selfishness around and demonstrate that self-interest is best served by supporting the common interest, by making people think about what happens when they lock up all the books. Joseph G. Sakey, Director Cambridge Public Library
...Ugandan soldiers who man dozens of checkpoints in the capital are often indistinguishable from outlaws. Troops routinely rob and harass passersby. Two months ago, a Ugandan company commander, leading his men on a looting expedition, was fatally wounded when a bullet he fired into a door lock ricocheted into his chest. The next day, claiming that the officer had been killed by insurgents, soldiers swooped down on the neighborhood and robbed every home...
...cutting-room floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John Huston, Finney had his sandy hair shorn, lock, shock and cowlick. Said he afterward: "I've heard that the first thing a woman notices about a man is his hair." Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion for long. Once the film is finished, his hair...