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...life of a professional daredevil and his wife Linda (Sue Lyon). The movie is best when dealing with Knievel's early exploits: harassing the small-town Montana cops, riding into a dormitory full of giggling co-eds in pursuit of his girl friend, and stunt driving in a rundown local rodeo. Soon Knievel (played improbably but ingratiatingly by George Hamilton) begins to build quite a reputation for himself, and even becomes a sort of folk hero. Crowds turn out from all over the state-and, it is eventually implied, from all over the country -to watch his harebrained heroics...
...Overs. What has evolved, and is at the root of the drug war, is a system of distribution unique to Detroit. Heroin is peddled not on the street but from countless rundown apartments known in the drug trade as "quarter houses" and "shooting galleries." Quarter houses act as warehouses, where "caps" or bags are sold to owners of shooting galleries, of which some 2,000 are thought to exist. Along Mack Avenue there are 25 to 30 in one block. Drugs bought in galleries must be used on the premises so that the seller knows the buyer...
...fortunes after sniffing out future changes. As University of San Francisco Economist Frederick Breier says: "In the old days, two subjects were taboo: sex and exchange rates. The first taboo has been lifted, but the second should not be." Still, many details of the proposals have filtered out. A rundown on some of them, from most rigid to most flexible...
...conspiracy trial." Still, Davis gathered an impressive file of 3-in.-by-5-in. cards listing potential organizers; by November he had established a nuclear staff of four or five that was to expand and become known as the Mayday Collective. They set up temporary headquarters in a rundown three-story house in Northwest Washington...
...Beguiled, a witches' brew of Ambrose Bierce and Carson McCullers, is set in a rundown Louisiana finishing school toward the end of the Civil War. A ten-year-old student named Amy (Pamelyn Ferdin), stumbles on a gravely wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood). Instead of turning him over to a Confederate patrol, the girls and their two teachers (Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman) nurse the trooper to health. The gently held prisoner coolly plays off his jailers against each other, hinting marriage to one teacher, making advances toward the other, titillating students. When his duplicity is uncovered, The Beguiled...