Word: pawnshop
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...Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. But when Marie returned there to press charges against her husband, he had somehow learned of her supposedly secret appointment. Outraged that she was ruining his career, Jeromy confronted Marie inside the waiting room of the base legal office early last year. He fired a pawnshop pistol into her chest. As horrified witnesses watched her yellow dress turn crimson, she screamed, "Jeromy, no!" And then he fired a second round into her brain...
...thought a lot about that. I know that if I hadn't been able to walk into a pawnshop and buy a handgun as easily as I did, I wouldn't have robbed that bank. That applies to just about everybody in this prison who ever held up anybody. Nobody robs a place with a knife or a can of Mace. I was 19, an eighth-grade dropout. If I'd known that things weren't as helpless as I thought they were, that would have stopped me. I wouldn't have felt so frustrated...
...scene is the interior of a cluttered Chicago pawnshop--filled with junk, assorted gewgaws, and three junky (and equally disposable) characters. Set designer Janie Fliegel makes intelligent use of the small stage, using hanging lamps and exposed air conditioning vents to delineate the space of the shop...
Cavalry and armored divisions were shipping out from Fort Hood, Texas. A lawyer in nearby Killeen executed wills and powers of attorney free of charge. A pawnshop announced it was willing to hold items for a year without charge to soldiers going to the gulf. In Memphis a radio station sponsored an "Iraq-no- phobia" gasoline sale in which a service station, its attendants dressed like Arabs, offered gas for 50 cents...
...main complaint about Big Deal is that for every element that is new, there is something old, something borrowed and something very blue. The plot, about an amiable gang of two-bit black crooks trying to burgle a Chicago pawnshop, is adapted from a 1958 Italian film, Big Deal on Madonna Street. Fosse, who wrote the book, stubbornly resisted advice to simplify the narrative, prune out tasteless jokes involving a urinal and a simulated oral- sex act, add more dance and brighten what he admitted was a "melancholy" ending. The score, too, is recycled: standards from...