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Just after the Banco Ambrosiano audit was completed last month, Calvi fled to England. Several days later, his body was found suspended by a rope from Blackfriars Bridge over the Thames River. In the pockets of his expensive gray suit was $20,000 in foreign currencies. Italians quickly noted the symbolism of the location: members of the P2 Lodge dress in black and call one another friar...
...guess passes out on top of the car Exhausted, sunburned, hungry, wondering about what it had been like to be sober. The guy on the roof looks even worse than everyone else. The car is too crowded, so instead of leading him inside, we take some rope from the trunk and tie him to the top. With all the traffic, we weren't moving very fast, and he didn't wake up for about 200 feet, 20 minutes later...
...assistant manager. Though an appealing character, Paul must speak lines that seem as original as the movie's premise. Walking down the back streets of L.A. with Creed and Rocky, he says, "Rats even have more pride than to be caught dead here." When Creed insists that Rocky jump rope to disco music. Paul complains, "Rockey can't train like a colored fighter. He ain't got no rhythm...
...only possible landing at the island is not a landing in the usual sense of the word but a place where a boat can be held long enough for men to jump on a wire rope ladder that dangles about 40 ft. from a cantilever catwalk. There is constant danger of the boat being broached by the incoming swell, being smashed against the cliff, being caught and crushed under the cliff or being engulfed by the receding backwash. -U.S. Coast Guard Warning...
...Side," which is more an indulgence of language that a description of a neighborhood, Nye urges: "Let the names be verses in a city that sings." The exuberance, unfortunately, has the sterile air of a failed experiment-the result of pushing a clever idea to the end of its rope instead of letting the idea soar where it will on its own emotional force...