Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roughed Up. They began when a Negro woman who was arrested for trying to steal a pint of gin charged that she had been roughed up by Dixmoor Liquor Store Owner Michael ("Big Mike") LaPota, 52, a 265-lb. ex-con. Soon the story spread through Dixmoor and into the neighboring town of Harvey. A crowd of Negroes gathered in a parking lot across the street from LaPota's shop, chanting to the accompaniment of bongos, "Big Mike must go!" For hours, Negro rabble-rousers harangued the mob with inflammatory speeches. Someone threw a rock through the closed liquor...
...with sad surprise that Hoffmann's masks and mirrors, carriages and candelabra are no longer considered arty by the Party. What's more, the show attempts too many things at once and too few of them really fit together. The actors on the screen, for instance, continually steal scenes from the actors on the stage-they are bigger, brighter, louder. As a result, the spectator is continually aware that he is watching a trick, an immensely intricate trick that doesn't quite come off. Even if it did come off, Laterna Magika would still be a trick...
...sitting ducks. But except for one brutal police officer, the Midwestern town where these events take place is seemingly untouched by ordinary everyday race prejudice. In a cliché scene that emphasizes the childlike purity of their love, the couple romp in the park playing tag and hopscotch, and steal their first kiss at the foot of the Civil War memorial. Once married, they move out to the farm with his wonder ful parents, soon have a baby brother for little Ellen Mary. It is an idyllic existence. Too idyllic, perhaps, for it is a world created to serve...
They say that the recipe for a Hungarian omelet begins, "First, you steal a dozen eggs," and when Marlene Dietrich came on to sing at the Cannes Palm Beach Casino, the world's most professional Hungarian was sitting at a ringside table with her photographer. The world's sexiest sexagenarian had on a skintight, flesh-colored gown so diaphanous that her contract forbade pictures during the performance, but as Zsa Zsa Gabor told it, "My cameraman was so overcome by Marlene's beauty that he asked if I thought she would mind being photographed. I told...
...including its own 17,000-mile railroad network, a steamship company, an airline and even a chain of hotels to serve them. But until recently, it got a very small profit return on these vast assets; it allowed its operations to become antiquated, competing air and highway traffic to steal away earnings and its ships, hotels and airline to slip into the red. Even worse, it sold off or leased much of its 25 million acres of valuable oil, gas and mineral and timber land, largely because it was reluctant to compete directly with some of its own freight customers...