Word: shops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disco and coffee-shop owners are variously hostile and hospitable to the cops. At Arthur J's, four men began openly selling drugs at a table; another time, a 15-year-old girl ran out of the ladies' room screaming, "Oh my God, I broke the needle off in my arm!" Shirley Norris, the manager, hired her own night guard-and then gathered signatures for a petition demanding extra police protection. Now she's seeing "familiar faces back again" -her old "straight" clientele...
...Muzorewa and Sithole are talking about electing leaders in Zimbabwe. How? Elections are controlled by Smith. The first thing now is to fight those rebels [the Smith regime]. Once we defeat them, that is the time for elections. The Patriotic Front is not a closed shop at all. Anybody who is prepared to face facts and fight now is welcome, whether he is a bishop or a reverend with a collar, as my father was. But whoever wants an election now is wrong...
...been a screenwriter in the age of Jaws? Would it have occurred to him to give Ahab's sense of injury and obsession with revenge to the whale, to put the moral and psychological shoe on the other flipper? And if he had had the temerity to shop so weird a concept around town, would some producer have had the common sense to tell him, "Back to the custom house, Herman...
...Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, Ernie Blye, a black man, stayed at his tailor shop all night long, grasping a gun, his German shepherd at his heels. A gang of men began to menace him. He cried out: "If you shoot me, my dog will get you!" They closed in relentlessly. Blye shouted again: "I got ten cans of potash upstairs! I'm goin' upstairs now! I blind you, you come up the stairs after me! I blind you!" The crowd left him alone...
Many looters seemed scarcely aware that they were stealing. Said one of two black boys standing outside a stripped bicycle shop near Columbia University: "We're just out shopping with our parents. This is better than going to Macy's." Some blacks resented all the fuss over the looting. Said Lorraine, 14, who had helped plunder a drugstore in East Harlem: "It gets dark here every night. Every night stores get broke into, every night people get mugged, every night you scared on the street. But nobody pays no attention until a blackout comes...