Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caper picture, The Anderson Tapes displays a slick criminal shrewdness: its paraphernalia and plans are always chillingly plausible. Had the film restricted itself to its own Rififiefdom, it would have remained as airtight as a legit alibi. But Director Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker, The Group), who has never shown a scintilla of genuine wit, aims for nothing less than political satire. Since Duke's parole, it seems, he has had no secrets that the cops do not know instantly. When he consults a black driver who lives above a Panther storefront, Duke's schemes are electronically processed...
...green, the colors of the old country. The guy wires hummed in the breeze as an organ on the bandstand piped out random tunes for the early arrivals. Vendors set up rows of gaily colored booths to sell buttons (WE'RE NO. l), pennants (ITALIAN POWER!) and other paraphernalia of prideful protest. Now, in the already shimmering morning heat, the buses came rolling in from Corona in Queens, Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, Greenwich Village and all the Little Italys of the city. The occasion was the Italian-American Civil Rights League's second annual Unity Day, and it was meant...
...course, that was not to be. After all, there was a war out there to fight and so the Class of '46 never had much time for traditional college paraphernalia. Many arrived in Cambridge during the summer of '42, eager to enter upon a hectic round of three semesters per year as the University escalated its schedule in an effort to process more troops and officers for the front lines overseas...
...judges' objections went beyond the newspaper's editorial content-typically, unretouched photos of men and women, singly and in enthusiastic groups, performing all manner of sexual acrobatics. The decision specifically found illegal the many ads offering dildos and other sex paraphernalia, and classified ads soliciting participants in sex acts that clearly violate New York's penal law. So Screw did away with dildo display ads and printed a notice to all of the would-be users of its classified columns that henceforth it "can no longer accept personal ads which solicit persons to break...
...author totally lacks her son's blinding talent for description, his eerie access to the treasures of evocative memory. Luckily she does not even try to compete. Enchantment is almost dizzily free of the usual paraphernalia of fiction. What is left is a curiously powerful concentration of fierce emotion. If the book misses the wonder of that five-pointed star, it admirably conveys the sensation of being locked...