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...hectoring ascendancy over public figures. In journalism, as in arms races or in games like football, there are times when either the offense or the defense is dominant. Currently, in the ongoing contest between leaders who want to put their own viewpoint across and journalists who seek to pin them down or to draw them out, the offense prevails...
Gutmann believes that no more than one-quarter of the underground G.N.P. is attributable to organized crime. The rest, he writes, is largely traceable to such cash-oriented businesses as restaurants, garages and small retail shops, to youths doing part-time chores for pin money, and to the employment of illegal aliens and retired people who also collect Social Security checks. Ultimately, Gutmann feels, the subterranean economy, like black markets around the world, was created by the nation's cobweb of employment restrictions and tax rules. Coupled with a new-morality spirit of what he calls "selective obedience...
...last Harvard winner against Coast Guard was heavyweight Craig Beling. Beling disposed of the Bears' heavyweight with a pin at 2:58 in the match. MIT's heavyweight, John Stenard, only lasted 21 seconds against Beling, as the Crimson heavyweight recorded the fastest pin...
...moments for even the mightiest of rock groups. The Atlanta crowd was not knocked breathless by the Pistols, but they obviously had some of the fun Rotten urged upon them. It was not a typical punk assemblage of street-wise rowdies, although one fellow showed up with a safety pin punched through his cheek. The kids pelted the performers with a friendly barrage of crumpled paper cups and, as the Pistols' big beat went on, twisted and swayed on their feet. They had no choice: the place had been designed without seats to encourage informality and mingling. Imagine...
...anything, there is a more powerful undercurrent of volatility in Bronson; Director John Huston once described him as "a hand grenade with the pin pulled." His early years were scarring. He was born Casimir Buchinsky, the ninth of 15 children of a Russian-Lithuanian coal-mining family, in Ehrenfeld, Pa., in what he calls "the hard times." The family slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing...