Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thin Man [1934]. This is one of the finest comedies of the thirties. Dashiell Hammett wrote the script from his own crime novel of the same name, and drew the marriage of Nick and Nora Charles from his own arrangement with Lillian Hellman--a quick and sophisticated rapport where constant insults only feed their affection. Their craziness is harmonious because everyone else is a creep. William Powell and Myrna Loy star, having cocktail number one at breakfast and shooting out the tree bulbs at Christmas...
...around to take the call, he is firm about returning each one personally. The front door is left open, and friends wander in. Nicholson will often come back from work with a few pals in tow, a group that might include Mike Nichols (whom Nicholson calls "Big Nick"), Candice Bergen ("Bug"), Art Garfunkel ("Art the Garf) or Warren Beatty ("Master B"). The house itself is raffish and eclectic, featuring a collection of pig effigies: stuffed toy pigs, carved wooden pigs, a pig matchholder and a needle point showing two pigs coupling. "When pigs became the symbol of evil," Nicholson explains...
...should be enough to say that Winter Kills is a gothic farce about the assassination in the early 1960s of U.S. President Tim Keegan. Condon unaccountably gives Keegan a younger half brother named Nick Thirkield who uncovers the plot afterward, and although the shooting occurs in Philadelphia, not Dallas, President Keegan travels to Berlin during the blockade and tells cheering crowds, "Ich bin ein Berliner...
Crimson runner Nick Leone Sunday shaved two-tenths of a second off the meet record in the 440 at the 85th New England Track and Field Championships in Quincy...
Meanwhile, the New York Rangers traded captain Vic Hadfield to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenseman Nick Beverly...