Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brooks is a tough, bony man of 65, with a tough, bony reputation. He is an old baseball player, newspaper reporter, rider of freights. He played chess with Bogart. He directed and wrote the screenplays for Key Largo, Blackboard Jungle and In Cold Blood. His regular practice is to give actors segments of the script just before scenes are to be shot, then collect them afterward and destroy them in a paper shredder. "I don't trust anybody," he yells. "I've seen it happen too many times. The best goddamned thing in your movie shows up in a goddamned...
...East-Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Libya, North Yemen-base their laws on the Koran. In Egypt, which prides itself on its Western-style sophistication, a parliamentary commission is at work on a new code, based on Islamic law, that would make apostasy, among other crimes, punishable by death. A rider to the proposed bill provides that if a Muslim becomes a Communist he would be considered apostate and therefore subject to beheading...
...metal roller coaster draws its inspiration from the aerospace industry. "We take great precautions to ensure that the biomechanical aspects of the rides are within the limits a rider can endure," says Terry Brown, vice president of Arrow Development Co. "We check each ride with instruments. The computer tells us about velocity, centrifugal forces and stresses...
Mopeds are the near-beer of the motorcycle world. They are more than bicycles but less-far less-than the roaring machines straddled by Marlon Brando in The Wild One and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider; no self-respecting Hell's Angel would be caught dead on one. Yet mopeds (from motorized-bicycle-plus-pedals) are coming on like Scotch after Repeal...
...slight, 95-lb. frame of Steve Cauthen was hunched over Bay Streak last week, moving to challenge the leaders in the fourth race at Long Island's Belmont Park. As onlookers gasped, Bay Streak snapped a foreleg, and the rider and his horse went down. Cauthen, 17, was rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for lacerations, bruises and fractures of his right arm and two fingers. A few days later, the youth was released and sent home to Kentucky to recuperate. The doctors' orders: no riding for at least six weeks, putting a temporary halt...