Word: spading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honor for killing 20 enemy soldiers in a fit of rage after seeing his friends destroyed: why his mother who brought him up as a Christian is so proud of his being honored for killing: and why the medal should transform him overnight from a down-and-out "spade" to a privileged citizen estranged from the rest of the poor black community. At the same time he clings to the medal, for it distinguishes him and protects...
...cynicism. The detective's ultimate values are never really cynical--if they were he'd be the criminal and not the detective, whether he's Margaret Rutherford playing Agatha Christie's insufferable Miss Marples or Alec Guinness playing Chesterton's quaint Father Brown or Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade explaining, after Miles Archer's murder, that you have a duty to your partner...
...Maltese Falcon, the best detective movie ever made, plays this week beginning tomorrow at the Brattle Theater. Humphery Bogart is Sam Spade, cool, calm and marvelous. Mary Astor plays the shady woman, a sexist stereotyped role that is nonetheless irresistible in the context...
...chewed Yellow Cab with a treble hook mounted on the front bumper ... Inside a minute, he had three wiggling pedestrians on the hook ... One was a girl in a patent-leather suit, hooked lightly through the lip, so we released her. On the next three casts, we added a spade pimp, an elevator inspector, the club-footed editor of a monthly insurance company newsletter, and three prostitutes...
...Consolidated Edison also denies that putting pressure on the courts, or terminally discouraging environmentalists, was the motive behind its seemingly premature construction start. It also denies that it made no official announcement of the groundbreaking-no press releases, no pictures of smiling executives in hardhats pushing a golden spade into the mountain loam--in order to avoid the adverse publicity it would undoubtedly bring...