Word: pints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Meyer ("Mickey") Cohen, 62, pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) onetime West Coast gang leader; of complications of stomach cancer; in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn-born boxer who was running his own mob in Cleveland at 19, Cohen went on to work in a Chicago gambling casino owned by the Capone syndicate, then turned to bookmaking in California. After Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was shot in 1947, Cohen became the high-living kingpin of Los Angeles gangdom. He was sentenced to prison twice, both times on charges of income tax evasion. Cohen was released in 1972, partially paralyzed...
...sister with the inevitable Carter smile, she basks in all the attention without letting it turn her head. She has, however, learned to turn a profit by selling lemonade and sandwiches at her already famous stand in Plains. In one day's brisk entrepreneurship, she and her pint-size partners earned $23 from tourists and newsmen who were thirsty for anything that the Carter family provided...
...than ecstasy, presumably because it is more tactile, and the santeros lost no opportunities to stress it. Saint Acacius, an early Christian warrior-martyr, is shown crucified in Mexican military costume, flanked by a V-shaped row of contemporary soldiers. The gaunt, hacked Christs drip blood by the pint, their rib cages and muscles have a flayed pathos that transcends the crudeness of carving and drawing; and in some pieces, like the articulated figure of the Standing Christ, with rawhide-hinged elbows, the imagery of pain acquires an immense expressive force. In some ways the weirdest santos of all were...
Travers, a pint-size, cigarette-smoking Falstaff, attributes his personal revival largely to a liberalizing of English society. He much admires the realism of the new generation of English playwrights, such as John Osborne and David Storey. Indeed, he tried his comeback because he feels "there is something to be said now which I've never been allowed to say in the past." The younger dramatists had cleared the way by campaigning against the official stage censor, a punctilious guardian of manners and language for the starchy upper-crust audience that had so inhibited English theater. (In the 1940s...
...notion that people-even the French-can enjoy a memorable meal that contains only 500 calories instead of the 3,000 or more that tradition demands. No longer, as the old adage had it, need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork. The blasphemer is an impish, outgoing, pint-sized ex-pastry chef named Michel Guérard, 42, who has invented la cuisine minceur-the cuisine of slimness...