Word: runyon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know emphatically and beyond any doubt" who stole the art, says Myles Connor, 54, a Milton, Mass., native who is in federal prison for interstate transportation of two paintings stolen in 1975 from the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. Connor, who appears to have escaped from a Damon Runyon story, says he and a gangster named Bobby Donati, a longtime pal and partner in crime, checked out the Gardner around 1974. "Did I case it?" asks the 5-ft. 7-in., bushy-bearded Connor, who looks more like a visiting professor than a guy who has run with...
...Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks, and the mouth of a randier Damon Runyon...
...have reached the castle, though it's questionable whether they've been heard. On a National Public Radio call-in program, a ticked-off citizen of Castine, Maine, (whose downtown P.O. was spared last year after cbs's This Morning took up its cause) chewed out Postmaster General Marvin Runyon: "Doesn't the Postal Service have some kind of obligation not to rip small communities apart?" Runyon, a former auto-company executive, responded with executive generalities concerning aging buildings and population growth, then effectively reversed himself. "It is not our business to be closing down small post offices," he said...
...Runyon should tell that to the folks in Livingston, where the fight has reached a pitch that rivals last year's Freemen standoff. In December, volunteers stood outside the post office in subzero weather and gathered 1,500 signatures on an antimove petition. Regional officials in Denver took notice. Postponing the decision to relocate, the Postal Service hired a market-research firm to conduct a telephone survey. However, Cooper and others found it insultingly biased--not a sincere sampling of opinion but the basis for a slick p.r. offensive...
...seedy Manhattan hotel lobby in 1928, Hughie is an old-fashioned tale--even the clock on the wall ticks in waltz tempo. And Erie Smith (Pacino) is an old-fashioned gambler, a loser out of Damon Runyon. For Erie, horseplaying is a sacred vocation. "I'd rather sleep in the same stall with old Man o' War," he says, "than make the whole damn Follies." Down on his luck, he has the sour, insistent patter of a guy without dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk...