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...truck backed into the crowd of about 500 onlookers and dumped a load of mud, half burying a six-year-old child who was pulled out scared but unhurt. A bulldozer started the crowd scattering by rolling a massive pile of steel sewer pipes at it. While water wagons high-arched jets of cold water at the crowd, other trucks careened along sidewalks and up grass embankments in pursuit of fleeing people...
...lines of worry and aggravation engraved on Cohen's face are all too common to middle-aged businessmen for me to question the truth of his counsel to the young Kravitz. In the dog-eat-dog world of business, the skeletons pile up rapidly in the closets of seemingly respectable men who expose themselves to the fluctuations of the marketplace...
...Evidence. Early last week police confirmed what Hammons had immediately suspected: the bones were human. The hunter had apparently found the first concrete clues to the mysterious disappearance of seven young women from various parts of Washington State since last January. Searchers sent to the area amassed a grisly pile of evidence: two jawbones, two spinal columns, some vertebrae, two leg bones apparently from the same person, two leg bones from a different person and more swatches of hair. The bones were from at least three different bodies, and with the help of dental charts, experts brought...
After the U.S. gave up its attempt to prosecute him, Sasakawa fast-talked the government into letting him set up a series of motorboat races on which the public could legally bet. The races proved to be a big hit and also provided more cash with which Sasakawa could pile up giri. As head of the monopoly that controls the races even today, Sasakawa dispenses 3% of ticket sales ($105 million this year) to favored causes, including charities and research into shipbuilding technology. He has been most generous, though, to Japan's martial arts societies, bragging that he commands...
...FILM is further disjointed by a huge block of time spent on a caricature of a superpig Fascist, Spatoletti, who patronizes Salome, calling her his "golden ass." Images pile on top of images--Spatoletti's round head sheathed in a leather motorcycle cap; his high black boots and fisheye goggles; a demonic grimace; an imperial pose in the arms of an ice-blue marble statue eerily lit at night; an encounter with a peasant who lost two fingers to Spatoletti's knife and now jokes nervously, "I make the sign of the cuckhold when I salute Il Duce." Wertmuller...