Word: markings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inspector Candlish has had his experience with are pretty crude operators. Nor is his information entirely correct. A stall is not a "runner"-whatever that is supposed to be-a stall is an extremely skilled kinetic psychologist who knows exactly how to walk alongside or in front of the "mark" (victim) so that he is forced to slow down or turn aside, right into the wire. This is called "framing the mark," and brushing against the mark is pretty crude-it can result in unpleasant attention...
...does a good wire argue with a victim over a taxi. Can you think of a better way for a mark to pick out a mug shot of you later in the police station...
...sounds like a knockabout mob at work, no-class cannons. It is all a damn shame; it used to be beautiful to watch two stalls frame a mark at the command "Turn John in for a pit" and see the poke come out. A good whiz mob could do it in three seconds without the mark rumbling...
...same pattern has emerged in 1969. At the recent N.C.A.A. championships in Nashville, Tenn., an unknown 440-yd. runner named Curtis Mills streaked across the tape in 44.7 sec., .1 sec. under the two-year-old world mark. The first black trackman in the history of Texas A. & M., Mills whipped the Olympics' top two quarter-milers -Lee Evans and Larry James. Villanova's Marty Liquori, who finished dead last in the 1,500-meter finals in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, defeated World Record Holder Jim Ryun after nine tries in the mile...
...terrifying women. Franz Kline's huge black-on-white compositions showed no more sophistication than a Chinese ideograph, but they conveyed the energy of the man that made them-and commanded a whole wall rather than a corner of a scroll. The smoldering color clouds of Mark Rothko drew a viewer in like a smoke-filled room, where unidentified objects lurk just beyond the eye's peripheral vision...