Word: spoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philip, prosperity is just around the coroner. In Marlowe-an adaptation of Chandler's The Little Sister-he follows the spoor of a runaway brother who leaves ice picks in people's necks. On the trail, the shamus uncovers some California tourist attractions (Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno), some lethal gangsters, and the mandatory snide police lieutenant (Carroll O'Connor...
...Baines Johnson, the most boisterous, bumptious occupant of the White House in two decades, shuffled off to Texas like an injured bear to lick the wounds of office and hibernate for a while out of the public view. TIME Correspondent Don Neff has been following Johnson's elusive spoor, and last week he filed this report...
...damn for what they point to. If her wry defloration of ideology is pale beside Brecht's, her portrayal of convention-hall mores does not begin to approach Mencken's Murray & Co. have slightly humanized a drastically inhumane play by virtue of taste and skillful joining, but the blood-spoor lingers on the air. MacBird begins with a ritual murder and then fails both to implicate and to absolve its audience; the result is an experience of bland and almost complete detachment, and a document in the history of this tired old polis where agent and activity, critic and establishment...
...spoor of a sex killer, Janssen sees a suspect draw a pistol-and promptly guns him down. The victim turns out to be a widely respected M.D. When the doctor's pistol cannot be found, Berkeley-style pickets cry police brutality, and a grand jury indicts Janssen on a manslaughter charge. Eventually even California's finest turn their backs on one of their own. With less than ten days before trial time, he goes on a solo search for the missing gun and the story behind it. Running down false leads and blind alleys, Janssen caroms...
...some, of course, it was spoor sportsmanship, killing defenseless animals and all, but Nkrumah had made chimps of his soldiers too long, and they had lots of bones to pick. The animals, they decided, were fair game. So while Nkrumah sat in Conakry, turning himself into a Guinea pig and pondering whether he should pack his trunk and join his friend Nasser at his Nile perch, the boared soldiers decided what they needed was some good gnus. One night when they were all croc-ed, they turned the zoo into Nkrumah's Bar & Gorilla...