Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:15 and Devil by the Tail...
...hanging out laundry or washing the family car. They were duly rewarded at 12:59 a.m. as a few droplets of rain fell, sending up New Year's Eve whoops all over town. The manifestation proved to be merely an overture, however. At 5 in the afternoon, the tail end of a nearby tornado dumped a drenching .59 inches of rain on Waynesburg within 2% hours. Observed one soaked resident: "We did need a few drops, but this was ridiculous...
King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:45 and Devil By the Tail...
King of Hearts, 6:30, 9:45 and Devil by the Tail...
...very much molded, too, in the Chandler style, intricately written by Robert Towne and directed by Roman Polanski with a sort of edgy placidity that breaks into moments of sudden violence. Jack Nicholson, sporting a sort of drowsy panache, appears as a private investigator named J.J. Gittis, hired to tail the Los Angeles water commissioner, who is suspected by his wife of being unfaithful. But the commissioner is soon victim of a highly unlikely accident, dead of a fall into a reservoir drain, his lungs full of salt water. This plunges Gittis, too, way over his head, into a network...