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...each of his sworn enemies. In Sergant Friday-monotone, he relates in voice-over the location and date of each shooting. He personally (with hundreds of cops standing behind him) shoots his victims with a lighted cigar hanging from his mouth. The cigar goes out once, and Purvis' sidekick lieutant runs to relight it to satisfy his fetish. This is the significance of the line "Don't shoot Dillinger until you see me light my cigar...
...Deke Slayton and Vance Brand, will visit Zvezdnoy Gorodok (Star City), outside Moscow, for a reciprocal study of the Soviet spacecraft. Unless each side understands the other's ship, serious problems could occur when the spacecraft are maneuvering in earth orbit. But the cosmonauts-including Leonov and his sidekick, Engineer Valery Kubasov, who are the prime crewmen for the mission-seemed to be particularly interested in another American spacecraft. While touring a mock-up of the giant Skylab space station-which is significantly larger than the Soviet Salyut-they poked into every compartment within sight, flipped countless switches...
...Time of Your Life, Saroyan gave us one whore with a heart of gold, the luminous Kitty Duval. Wilson is no piker. He gives us three: Martha (Trish Hawkins), April (Conchata Ferrell) and Suzy (Stephanie Gordon). Martha is a lost, innocent child, April her caustic Eve Arden-type sidekick, and Suzy the dumb one. It testifies to the durability of the goodhearted-prostitute cliche that audiences can still...
HENRY KISSINGER once credited his success partly to the fact that he works alone in the fashion of the clas sic Western gunslinger. But even the Lone Ranger needed his Tonto, so on his voyage to North Viet Nam, Kissinger is taking along his trusty sidekick, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William H. Sullivan...
Perhaps the most telling part of the book is Rentzel's description of his three-year stint at Oklahoma University under the famed coach Charles B. ("Bud") Wilkinson, now serving as Chris Schenkel's sidekick on ABC Television. Rentzel describes one practice during his sophomore season in August 1962, when Wilkinson ordered a full-pad scrimmage in 100 degree heat. According to Rentzel, two players lost all the salt in their bodies and coiled up in agony, while another player went wild and attacked Wilkinson with his fists. At the end of practice, says Rentzel, the field "was covered with...