Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golden Age--it's crummy, really, but irresistable because there's just so much glam. With the Barrymore's, Joan Crawford and Wallace Beery. Along with it at Quincy House is Astaire and Rogers' Top Hat, whence cometh "Cheek to Cheek" and others. Many people's favorite--not mine, but wonderful by definition. Music is Irving Berlin...
...matter that he's a thief; for society, as Lelouch sees it, is but a grand game of cops and robbers anyway. Simon merely plays the game with society rather than within it. When Francoise asks him how he came by such a profession, he shrugs, "I come by mine the same way you do by yours, out of need or by choice." He is obviously the moral man. He is also the glamorous gangster. Given the style in which he executes the heist--posing as a rich ice cream manufacturer, vacationing in a Ritzy Cannes hotel, driving a Mercedes...
...reputation as a fair but somewhat excitable courtroom lawyer. Aroused by the tactics of opposing counsel in one trial, Sirica impulsively shouted: "It ain't fair; it ain't fair!" In another case, he jumped up to protest to a judge: "Not a single objection of mine so far has been upheld by the court." When one defendant made a threatening move toward him, Boxer Sirica, ready for a fight, told a restraining lawyer...
...night-a-week hound happening is Isadore Hecht, 60, West Flagler's owner. The former tomato grower and banana importer bought the track 20 years ago when it handled just $14 million in bets during a 13-week season. Hecht modernized the plant and produced a greyhound gold mine. In 1972 the track handled $63 million in bets (8% went to management) in a 16-week meeting. Every night Hecht can be found in a posh suite of offices perched at one end of the track. There he can monitor the betting windows on TV or close the curtains...
...WHCT in Hartford, Conn., kept him from a microphone for only a short time. The station lost money, and Osgood was out of a job. "I thought I was the world's greatest expert on pay TV," he says, "but since there was only one pay-TV station -mine-my services were not exactly in demand. I went from being the youngest manager of a TV station in the U.S. to being the oldest radio cub reporter...