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...robberies for which Patty is under suspicion had one peculiar similarity. At the first, one of the two men who entered the building stood at the door and counted out the seconds to one minute, then yelled, "Let's get out of here!" At the second, a woman, who had a blue bandanna pulled over her face, stood by the door and counted off the time. She noted every 30 seconds until, at 1½ minutes, she began ticking off every second. At two minutes, she too yelled, "Let's get out of here...
...Roger is a brilliant performer," Russell states unequivocally. "He has a curious quality of innocence that makes him perfect for Liszt." Russell's fantasy puts that innocence through some peculiar trials. In the new film, Liszt disappears in the vagina of a paramour ("It's just part of the job," Daltrey maintains); later he sprouts a 10-ft. penis. "A one-foot penis is dirty, but ten feet is funny," says Roger loyally. "There's nothing really all that bad in this movie. I'll let my Mum and kids...
...cleverest thing about this book is the title, suggesting, by reference to Higgin's first work, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, that Richard M. Nixon's mentality was comparable to that of a small-time Mafia hood. Disappointingly, this is as close as Higgins comes to explaining Nixon's peculiar behavior duing the Watergate affair...
...whole affair had political overtones. Not only is Jackson seeking the presidential nomination, but his campaign manager in Michigan is Frank Kelley, the state's attorney general, who may be running for the Senate next year. To the Detroit News, the whole affair seemed very peculiar indeed. Declared an editorial: "When Kelley and Jackson tell us they see nothing political about all this, we wince in embarrassment for them. The only question is: How far will they go? Will they, for example, insist on being photographed beside the body, if it's found, like big-game hunters beside...
...today's standards of taste, John was certainly a minor artist. He sinned by missing the historical bus. The peculiar complexities, doubts and unfamiliarities of living in the 20th century had radically altered the historical sense of a whole generation of artists. Pound and Joyce no less than Picasso, Stravinsky or André Breton. John, however, continued to paint like a swashbuckling hedonist. His drawings of the figure had dash and virtuosity, even in his student years at the Slade School. He was, in the view of friends like Sir William Orpen, the inordinately successful painter, the best draftsman...