Word: robs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently, so was Walker. He was angered by the manner of his arrest, especially the identification where he was handcuffed in the line-up. He explained that he had a full-time job, and that the next day was payday. Why, he asked them, would he rob a woman of twelve dollars. They shook their heads, failing to understand this young black. Why, they asked him, did he rob a woman of twelve dollars...
...community, Mean John makes sure that Bickford receives regular doses of harassment. After some puzzling personal encounters and some unprofitable employment, Bickford decides to be the lawless kid everyone suspects he is. He concludes that the only way to save his pride and salvage his honor is to rob the fattest safe in town...
Each time, the pair leaves a minatory message signed AHIAR deploring mistreatment of animals. Press and public think them some sort of crank offshoot of the IRA, but the initials come straight from William Blake: "A Rob in Redbreast in a Cage/ Puts all Heaven in a Rage...
...ROB RISNER Huntsville, Texas
...messages more seriously than they ever had before, which makes the job of the critic all the more critical. Movie makers got more pretentious, and superlatives were applied unreservedly to works that would have been laughed at as art ten years ago, as the new media hype began to rob the public of their critical bearings. For Kael, this means that where a movie's mistakes were venial sins in the past, today they are more likely to be mortal. So she keeps hands on holster ready to warn the public of any foul play...