Word: pallets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal prisoners, two Mafia triggermen walked up to the modern twelve-story Metropolitan Correction Center near New York's city hall. With unidentified inside help, locked doors opened mysteriously for the gunmen, who took up positions in the hall outside one particular cell. Tossing restlessly on the hard pallet behind the bars was chunky Carmine ("Lillo") Galante, 68, who once aspired to become the Mafia's capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses). As lights dimmed in the cell block, the two armed men settled down for a nightlong vigil. Their assignment: to keep other mobsters from putting...
...special panel in the wall -and its own ghost. In quest of the Lincoln ghost, Amy and Classmate Claudia Sanchez, daughter of a Chilean embassy cook, spent a night in the huge Lincoln bed, while Mary Fitzpatrick, the reprieved prisoner who is Amy's nurse, slept on a pallet on the floor. And, grins Rosalynn, "of course they heard the ghost...
Just as the characters fall flat, so does most of the humor. Korcheff and Richler try to mingle comedy with satire by including all of the obligatory but overworked jokes. As they indiscriminately mock diverse sectors of American life, their many-colored pallet congeals into a brown blob. Particularly offensive are the overheated but not well done comments on sex change operations, the welfare system, and rugged individualism. In one scene, Jane's father refuses to lend money because he worships an icon of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the promoter of self-reliance. Here, the humor is too forced...
...Hard work and a lot of enthusiasm" characterized the Kirkland effort, said coach Mo Randall. "A lot of people come out," he added, "and everyone plays an equal amount." Superior goal tending by sophomore Drew Pallet, a stingy defense and consistent offense contributed to the successful season, explained Randall...
With six minutes left to play in the game, some of the Kirkland control disappeared. Steven Mullin of Winthrop House was pulled down from behind on a breakaway by Kirkland's Rob Wagman. Mullin slapped the penalty shot past goalie Drew Pallet to put Winthrop on the scoreboard and tie the game...