Word: muggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent mugging was carried out by a girl who had a good job as a secretary to a company director; her father is an executive and she lives in the family's $65,000 house and has her own car and a horse. Another female mugger is Brenda F., 17, who comes from a middle-class London family. Brenda got her start in violent crime earlier this year by acting as a decoy prostitute for her boy friend's gang. After the first mugging, she carefully put her share of the booty-970-into a locked chest...
...lines outside theaters showing The Godfather" The blasts from overseas were even more extravagant than usual. Said Milan's Corriere della Sera: "The U.S. is built on a structure of violence on every level. It is a perpetual state of siege that affects the whole society, from the mugger who kills a man for $20 in a subway to the B-52 pilot who calmly exterminates thousands of yellow men in order to give liberty to Indochina...
...have a nasty and altogether self-defeating tendency to blow back in the user's face. There is even a drawback to "Super Sound," an ear-piercing air horn attached to an aerosol can and designed to summon help while startling attackers. It can damage the hearing of mugger and muggee alike...
...wife. Later, Alex is sent to prison on a murder charge and undergoes the Ludovico Treatment--which conditions him against violent, sexual or (ironically) musical action, leaving him helpless when he finally returns to the outside world. The writer initially pities Alex--whom he then discovers to be the mugger and rapist. The writer's motives become muddled--he attempts to kill Alex and discredit the L.T. in one move, and botches the job. In Kubrick, the writer is so caricatured that his motives are individually ridiculous anyway. In the final ten minutes of the film, thematic development becomes utterly...
...where somebody neglected to curb his dog. Hard times tempered Garfield into tough resiliency; the characters that Gould plays frequently need help ordering breakfast. Garfield wrestled with evil forces and emerged, if not untainted, then certainly unvanquished. Gould's characters can't hold their jwn against a teen-age mugger; they all react to corruption with a sly smile and a shrug?and then reduce it to absurdity through comic overexposure. Garfield...