Word: note
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...broke off talks in Washington and called his emissaries back to Buenos Aires, explaining through Economy Minister Juan Carlos Pugliese that the government could not accept the terms laid down by IMF "without prejudicing its own plans for the gradual deceleration of the inflationary process." And on that ominous note, the regime last week devalued Argentina's once proud peso from 151 to 171 to the dollar...
Miss Caldiera had been in an adjoining teller cage on Tuesday when a man, keeping his right hand in his pocket, walked up to the counter and presented a robbery note. He received $1875, and then proceeded to drop $500 of it while hurrying out of the bank...
...into the room, Miss Butts fled and drove away in her car. Six hours later, the car was found parked outside the police station in Bethesda, Md., a Washington suburb. Miss Butts was crumpled over the wheel, dead of a bullet through her head. Beside her body was a note: "Today I killed my best friend, Mary Happer. I had to let her find relief from the cancer pain that was killing her so cruelly...
Though The Pawnbroker is full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...
...interesting to note that fifteen thousand students would demonstrate in Washington, completely oblivious to what should seem rather obvious to everyone: that if there were any class of individuals who would not be taken too seriously, it would be a crowd of fifteen thousand adolescent and only slightly post-adolescent, relatively uninformed (relative to those whom they were trying to impress) college students on a Saturday afternoon. If they all looked as scrubby as the bunch from Harvard in the picture, I would venture that the whole demonstration has hurt, rather than helped, their cause. Their altruistic motives are admirable...