Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without the palm trees. The streets are grizzled; the council flats could have been designed by the architect for Attica; the Charleston Club, a night spot where most of the film's action unspools, is a little triumph of dejected bad taste. Young predators attack a blind pensioner or prowl parking lots in search of black mischief. And the police are apt to break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight out, sir," says one apologetic bobby. "We have them on standby. For incidents such...
Over the years Sherrill had worked as an electronics technician and radio- store salesman, but he had never held a job for very long. Around the neighborhood he was known as a Peeping Tom. "Everybody hated him," says Neighbor Gerald Cash. "He'd prowl around at night, looking in people's windows." Children taunted him with nicknames like "Crazy Pat," and Sherrill would often chase them in a rage...
...Jones average of 30 industrial stocks suffered its largest single-day decline in history. Only six days after breaking through the 1900 level for the first time ever, the Dow plunged 61.87 points, to 1839, on the week's opening day. On Tuesday the bears were again on the prowl, as the Dow dropped an additional 18.27 points, to 1820.73. For the next two days, the market rallied faintly, then drifted down again to close at 1821.43. Nonetheless, insisted Mason Sexton, president of Harmonic Research, a Wall Street forecasting firm, "the bull market is intact...
Imagine his surprise when he arrives at her room for a more intimate encounter and finds her on the angry prowl, telephone in one hand, cigarette in the other, barking brisk, not to say obscene, instructions to her agent. Why, says Michael, you're two people. "If all I could be is two different people, I'd be out of business," she snaps back...
Matt Murdock (the blind lawyer who uses his secret "radar sense" to prowl the rooftops as DD) became a real character, a pathological vigilante with a conscience. Miller was questioning the superhero, the great convention of the comic book form: the citizen, gifted by fate, who selflessly puts on longjohns to fight evil. At least the villains use their laser-beam eyes for material gain--what do the heroes...