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...discusses Fats Goldberg. In 12 pages he creates a marvelously warm and funny character portrayal of the New York City pizza baron. Fats, we learn, has a mania for inventing crazy and impracticable schemes, such as an early-morning catering service called Brunch a la Goldberg, and a "pizza pusher" device made of plastic that would allow someone to eat a piece of hot pizza without burning his fingers. Best whacky idea of all, perhaps, was for Fats (who used to weigh about 400 pounds, hence the nickname) to go on a lecture tour, under the billing of "The Thin...
Since then, Barnes, who is self-educated and a constitutional-law buff, managed to work his way up from just another Harlem pusher to the reputed Godfather of a multimillion-dollar drug empire. In the process, he is said to have established a close and profitable relationship with the Mob. Reported one black detective to TIME Correspondent John Tompkins: "We recently saw a guy from Mulberry Street [in Manhattan's Little Italy] meeting with Nicky Barnes at a place in The Bronx [on Barnes' turf]. A few years back, Nicky would have had to go downtown...
While arresting a drug dealer in Coeur l'Alene, Idaho, one August night in 1972, Narcotics Agent Michael A. Caldero shot and wounded the suspect's companion, who tried to flee. He eventually recovered, the pusher was convicted, and the shooting incident went largely unquestioned-until Lewiston Tribune Reporter James E. ("Jay") Shelledy revived it a year later in a six-part series on the state drug enforcement agency...
...Cookie Pusher. Chocolate chip cookies are not exactly new: they date back to colonial times, when they were known as tollhouse cookies. It took Cookie Pusher Wally Amos, 40, to put chic into chips...
There are moments in Annie Hall when whole world seems responsive to Allen`s deniand for total candor, if only through directorial manipulation. Early in the movie, Allen has his elementary school classmates reveal, in childish lisps, their future careers--from businessman to dope pusher. At another point, subtitles disclose what Annie and he are really thinking underneath their pretentious banter about aesthetics. Best of all is Allen's accosting of passersby on the street to ask them about his troubles. One contented couple straightfacedly admit that their content stems from the fact that they are silly, boring and vacuous...