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...before the House Select Committee on Crime and promptly denounced the legislators for permitting "character assassination." Specifically, he fumed that Mafia Enforcer Joseph Barboza had been unchallenged in testifying that Sinatra had "fronted" for the Mafia in real estate investments. "This bum went running off at the mouth. I resent it. I won't have it. I'm not a second-class citizen." Shaking a newspaper headline (WITNESS LINKS SINATRA WITH MAFIA) Sinatra snapped: "That's charming. That's all hearsay evidence, isn't it?" In an effort to get first-hand evidence, the committee...
Everything is indeed up to date in Kansas City. They manage to offer a technique of slaughter there that is novel even for this age of mayhem. The boys at the meat-packing plant resent the intrusion of the boss's agent from Chicago, so they send him through the grinder, pack him up and ship him back home as a string of wieners...
...question is pathetic. The girls quickly learn that the Big Apple can turn into hard cider. Several drink heavily; they hate the men they work for and resent being thought of as sexual objects. But God knows men are sexual objects to them. Says one: "Single men must all live in caves...
...London. He had taken the step, he said, because the situation had seemed "very dangerous," and he had wanted to "save lives in any way I could." He had hoped that he might talk the Proves into tearing down the Catholic barricades in Londonderry that the Ulster Protestants resent so deeply. Despite the I.R.A.'s demands that Britain move all of its troops out of Catholic neighborhoods immediately and withdraw all soldiers from Northern Ireland by Jan. 1, 1975-conditions that Whitelaw described as "unacceptable"-thft negotiations were expected to continue. The end of the truce also quashed...
...Chicago's painting and his own: "The thing that interests us and delights us is the strangeness of the world, its surprises and mysteries, the impossibility of explaining it. I don't go along with science when it looks for ironclad explanations of phenomena. Likewise I resent the counterpart notion in art, that it is a problem-solving activity, that it has only one great direction-'the mainstream'-which moves with a sort of fine, Vatican logic. Much good art, the art that interests me, veers away from any center, and does nothing but explore...