Word: overcoats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next corner, where the street intersected the chief thoroughfare of the quarter, three old men sat in a doorstoop. One wore a huge blue overcoat whose holes would lead one to believe that it dated back to his service in the Chaco War that Bolivia fought with Paraguay in the 1930s. His nose was of the typical Aymaran variety--long and hooked--which lent a slight touch of brutality to his appearance. As he saw me pass and glance at him and his friends, the ex-soldier grabbed a bottle the man next to him was raising to his lips...
...tanks!" he screamed, and began searching through the pockets of his overcoat. He pulled out a flashcard with a picture of a large tank. "I will make the French tanks kill them." Francois wears his overcoat in any kind of weather. It is a size 52, even though Francois is only five feet tall. Part of the extra cloth covers his hump. Another part gets pulled into a sagging pouch on all sides of him by his pockets, filled with symbols of the war somewhere in his past...
...played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...
...Your story on Peter Falk [Nov. 26] brought back memories of the days we served together in the Connecticut budget division: Peter reporting to work on a bitter winter morning with his pajama top on beneath his overcoat (he had been studying his lines until the wee hours of the morning). Peter gamely trying to develop an interest in computer systems...
...just might accommodate. He has gone almost that far already, playing while holding a poodle on a leash ("It's harder if the dog isn't housebroken"), while tied to his doubles partner, while running around four chairs obstructing his side of the court, while wearing an overcoat, while carrying a pail of water. In a sunburst of understatement, he says: "I'm a fun guy, I'll do anything for excitement, I'm a ham." Ham? Henny Youngman is merely a ham. Bobby is an extraterrestrial peculiarity. At the antic rate he is going...