Word: strippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VIVA MARIA! Some camera magic by French Cinematographer Henri Decae helps Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot inflame the peasantry in Louis Malle's higgledy-piggledy farce about a pair of strip queens involved in a Central American revolution...
Among its tourist attractions, Baltimore boasts of succulent crab cakes, miles and miles of red-brick row houses, and the fourth busiest harbor in the nation. It quickly glides over its most famous tourist lure, the seamy, sinful strip known as "the Block," a symbol and byproduct of a police department that ranks with the worst in any major U.S. city...
...most blatant evidence of police inefficiency and probable corruption, said the I.A.C.P. report, is the Block, a "nationally notorious 'Casbah'," only a block from city hall, half a block from police headquarters. The Block is actually a five-block stretch of sleazy-but hardly inexpensive-nightclubs, strip joints and clip joints, most of them openly offering prostitution. The I.A.C.P.'s conclusion: "Public officials have either been 'reached,' or they are incompetent in the performance of their duties...
...Strip coal mining has provoked a heap of feudin' and fightin' lately in the poverty-pocked Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. Behind the legal protection of mineral-rights grants dating from the last century, companies have let mine debris bury trees, pollute streams with fish-killing acids, even damage homes with boulders and shale cascading down mountainsides. One woman watched in horror as a bulldozer uprooted the coffin of her infant son, sent it tumbling down the hill behind her house. Since last summer, sporadic gunfire has erupted between the angry mountaineers and the armed guards...
...sense, were Australians, who long ago combined the Scotch pronunciation of his name ("Mingis") with a comic-strip character called "Ming the Merciless," dubbed his regime "The Ming Dynasty...