Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when I saw the flyer for an introductory meeting of the Harvard Boxing Club asking for "Boxers (Experienced or Interested in Learning), Fight Fans, and Film Buffs," I knew it was time to make my move. In the oxymoronic, or just plain moronic, role of a participant disguised as a journalist, I made my way to the Lowell Junior Common Room last Wednesday...
Many thieves are repeaters and ex-cons, but some are plain, middle-class folks. As Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich was withdrawing his personal savings from a local bank in protest because it demanded payment on its loans to the city, his brother Perry was making a far less publicized withdrawal at another Cleveland bank last month-until he was caught and charged with bank robbery. In Chicago, a factory worker on the 3-to-11 p.m. swing shift was convicted of robbing eleven banks, all between the hours of 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. His total haul...
...Cleveland banks are conservative banks. They are respected in the financial community and are highly profitable. But although they are sound investments, their actual value to the city is open to question. As one former Clevelander, now practicing law in Philadelphia, wrote in a letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
Mere recitation of the countless awards and records that are his could not do justice to the admiration, affection and just plain awe Orr inspired during his decade with Boston. While Orr's No. 4 now appears majestically over the ice, the number of fellow former Bruin Phil Esposito, whose statistical achievements are just as impressive, can be found on the jersey of Bill Bennett, a rookie just sent down to the minors...
...glossed over, perhaps, but that's part of the concept, and the film glistens with a dopey, wistful irony. Lucas combines shimmering, colorful, almost surreal sequences of cars drifting down "The Strip"--heads craned out car windows, bare asses pressed against glass, hoots and come-ons and dares--with plain, naturalistic, informally posed medium shots of his characters; or he sets them against neon. Underneath it all--almost without a break--rocks the music of Bill Haley and the Comets, The Platters, Buddy Holly, and everyone else, and underneath them the rasp and howl of the Wolfman. The cast reads...