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...York City during the 1950s. That bid failed, and the since concentrated on lucrative commercial properties in Lower Manhattan, including Greenwich Village. "I still have to work for a living," says Zaccaro. "My life has been the real estate business. I've always loved it. The thrill is to get two people to agree on a deal. And then the culmination is to take a check to the bank." Away from work, he relaxes on a motorboat docked on Long Island Sound; he also has season tickets for New York Rangers hockey games...
...Spelters), The 4th Man is bobbing prosperously along the art circuit, a midsummer night's titillation for the would-be with-its. But the movie's ultimate fate, surely, is to be celebrated, along with Pink Flamingos and its ilk, at the midnight masses of the lavender thrill...
MARVEL at the spectacle of soldiery and swordsmanship in the decisive battle of Agincourt! THRILL as the victorious monarch woos and wins the fair Katharine - in two languages! It is all here, and more (including some of the loveliest wordplay in English or French). No wonder the play's Chorus poor-mouths the restrictions of the stage and the absence of "things/ Which cannot in their huge and proper life/ Be here presented." And no wonder that the definitive Henry V is Laurence Olivier's 1945 film version...
Manhattan, 1933. A pretty, blond woman walks alone into her darkened apartment. With a thrill of apprehension, Eve (Darlanne Fluegel) walks toward her big bed and slowly pulls down the top sheet. There, outlined in bullet holes, is the silhouette of her gangster lover, Noodles Aaronson. On the table beside her, Noodles' framed photograph is abruptly smashed by a burly hand. "Where is he?" demands the intruder. Eve doesn't know, but it doesn't matter: two bullets from a muted revolver send her reeling back, dead, to fill her lover's silhouette. This...
Despite detractors' fears, most state-run lotteries have been scandal free. During the first six months of its lottery, Colorado arrested seven people who had tried to forge winning tickets, but it now boasts that last year's games were squeaky clean. "People get a thrill out of betting, and lotteries seem to serve that need," says Lieut. Alfred Cassinelli of the Washington, D.C., morals squad. "All you have to do is keep it honest...