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...Montagne, a semi-retired hood known as "Le Flambeur" (the gambler), is a peculiar blend of American and French character. He speeds around the narrow streets of Montmartre in that most American symbol, the Cadillac convertible, and his outfit suggests the classic American gangster get-up: rumpled raincoat, dark suit, and perpetually tilted hat. And there is that peculiarly American sense of optimism and near-innocence that he earnestly exudes as he flips the ever-present coin in his pocket and wryly comments." I feel my luck coming back...

Author: By Jean-christobe Castelli, | Title: A Safe Bet | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

Still, that fifth beer is not the important thing for cadets on "trip section." While off campus, they can visit friends and family or tour Boston. "It's nice not having that omnipresent green raincoat standing above you for once," says Goetz...

Author: By Paul M.barrett, | Title: Putting the Preppies in Their Place | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

JOHN DEREK HAS nude pictures of his wife for sale. He doesn't keep them pinned to the inside of a greasy raincoat or anything, and you don't have to go down to the Combat Zone to see them. Just ask him--he's got a million, and he'll be glad to show them...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Take My Wife...Please! | 8/7/1981 | See Source »

...raincoat reached out to point a .22-cal. "Saturday night special" at the President. The chambers of the revolver contained six Devastator bullets, designed to explode on impact. He shot twice, paused, then fired off four more rounds?all in a scant two seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...Uhse's operations, she has tried to take the sleaze out of sex. Her Blue Movie Cinemas, which attract married couples as well as the raincoat set, are clean, well lighted and have potted plants in the screening rooms. In her sex supermarkets, shoppers stroll through spacious, attractive displays with grocery-style wire baskets as they select their dildos and see-through lingerie. Uhse, twice married and now divorced, says that she personally tests many of her wares before putting them on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Sale Appeal | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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