Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wants to Sleep (Film Polski; Edward Harrison) begins in a dark alley; a man is clubbed to the pavement and his briefcase stolen. So far, so bloody; then the thief walks a few steps down the alley, a gas pipe thuds musically on a skull, and the mugger himself lies mugged. The new thief happily examines the briefcase-until a knife glints in the uncertain light. He gives the loot to the latest blackguard, when suddenly...
...Palace; they walked toward the colors, stood side by side at attention for the playing of the two national anthems. Looking into Kennedy's eyes. De Gaulle said: "Now I have more confidence in your country.'' Then they smiled, shook hands, and the President drove off for a dinner skull session with aides to prepare for the confrontation with an enemy in Vienna...
...Bernard ("Bert") Brennan, 57, rough, tough-talking Teamster Union vice president since 1957, mentor and close friend of Jimmy Hoffa ("the greatest little bastard who ever put a pair of shoes on"); of cancer; in Detroit. A $15-a-week wagon driver who rose by his skill as a skull-cracking labor organizer, Brennan sported a lengthy arrest record (assault, bombing, antitrust violations), co-starred with Hoffa in close-mouthed appearances before the Senate labor-rackets committee...
...Skull-faced Actor Widmark plays a carefree American "adventurer for hire" who is offered $60,000 by the head of an international spy ring. He is to go into Budapest and whisk out a man wanted by the Hungarian government: Walter Rilla, a scholarly, idealistic anti-Communist who smuggles enemies of the state across the border into Austria. The story, filmed in Austria, Switzerland and England, turns on how Widmark finds Rilla while dodging the Hungarian secret police and the Russian army of occupation. Widmark also dallies with Picasso-eyed Sonja Ziemann, who plays Rilla's doughty daughter...
...every ancient tribe had a bloody custom or two, but the Scythians seemed to combine them all. They not only scalped their fallen foes but also drank their blood. A man who slew an enemy in the sight of the king was allowed to keep his victim's skull as a drinking bowl. When the king pronounced the death penalty on a person, he also automatically condemned to death all of the man's male relatives. Scythian kings never died alone. The head groom, the head cupbearer, the head cook and at least one wife were killed when...