Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them accuses another of cheating and another shoots him dead with a gun. They are little satirists, walking parodies of humanity." The sequence suggests ingenuity rampant on a field of lunacy. There has been nothing quite like it since they shut down Termite Terrace, the Warner Bros, cartoon shop...
...coastal villages that the invaders needed for training and sent elsewhere for a year or so. Butcher George Hannaford recalls that when he returned home to the hamlet of Torcross at the age of 13, "a cowshed and a pigsty were demolished out back of my father's shop, and apple trees were down. It was a tank park there, I think." After April 1,1944, no unauthorized civilian travelers were allowed within ten miles of some eastern and all southern shores...
Detroit Policeman Raymond Cruz of City Primeval (1980), for instance, is mistaken for a high school shop teacher by a girl he tries to pick up in a bar. Ernest Stickley Jr. is a dour Oklahoma hick who, in Swag (1976), conducts a doomed 100-day armed-robbery career. Resurfacing in Stick, seven years and a prison stretch later, he has scarcely improved; he worships Actor Warren Oates and thinks disco is dynamite. But, like all of Leonard's main men, deep down he is as incorrodable as a zinc bar and as heady as the stuff...
Things have changed around the Harvard Shop since Anthony began. It used to be located on Mass. Ave, but had to move because the lease expired. When D'Alleva first began working in 1964 he said the Harvard managers made sure he was polite to all the customers, and that he stood by his chair--even when he didn't have a customer...
During the Harvard strike in 1969 and the clamor of Vietnam demonstrations, the Harvard Shop was severely vandalized. Christopoulous said the police came by one day at about 6 p.m. and told him to close up because 3000 demonstrators were marching down Mass...