Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turk among many who has been incensed by the overtly anti-Turkish character of the movie "Mid-night Express," I feel I have to respond to Mr. Contreras' highly favorable review (November...
...unfortunate that Mr. Contreras' exaggerated enthusiasm for the artistic and technical features of the film leads him to almost ignore its grossly offensive depiction of the Turkish people. It is not until the very end of his long review that Mr. Contreras finally refers, as an afterthought, to what is a major (if not the major) theme underlying the movie: A hatred of the Turkish nation so blatant that it borders on racism. Throughout the film, the audience is treated to a sequence of violent and disturbing scenes where the Turks feature heavily as a nation of brutes and loonies...
...toward Danbury. Federal officials learned about them from wiretaps that revealed talk among mobsters about the contract on Galante. Belatedly, Morris Kuznesof, chief federal probation officer in Manhattan, wrote Danbury Warden Raymond Nelson that he had received information "from a highly reliable source that an attempt to murder Mr. Galante will be made at your institution." Nelson slapped Galante into solitary confinement "for his own protection." But Lillo apparently prefers to rely on his own security arrangements, without the feds' help. Contending the plots to kill him were fictitious and that the Government was trying to harass the prisoner...
...16th rock attack on his favorite target, the revolving front doors of New York City's federal courthouse, he found that his pastime no longer comes cheap. Repairing the door now costs more than $100, which makes his action a felony under U.S. law. Said his lawyer: "Mr. McCarthy finds himself the victim of inflation, Your Honor." Said McCarthy: "I'll never drink again." Said the judge: "Three years...
...News and Times each about $4 million a year, the Post about $2 million. The Post had resumed publication last month after Publisher Rupert Murdoch agreed to accept any terms eventually worked out between the unions and the other rival papers, a copycat clause that earned Murdoch the nickname "Mr. Me Too" among negotiators. "Both sides came out smelling like a rose," according to Kheel. Yet the strike cost the papers as much as $150 million in advertising and circulation revenues...