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...four who did-and who also learned Virgil's first name, Grainger's nickname and nearly every vital detail about the bank-left the van in a shopping center a mile away. Tucson police and the FBI started with nothing more than vague descriptions and a tip received five days before-not passed along to local banks-that two convicted bank robbers and murderers might have arrived from California...
...found, is even more pricey than casual dalliance. A candlelight dinner at an excellent New York restaurant, about $18 then, now costs $80 (up 344%). If music be the food of love, one might be tempted to tell the circling violinists to play on. The problem is the tip: $5, up 900% from the 50? that would have satisfied a '50s fiddler. Dom Perignon champagne, to celebrate a month (six months?) of togetherness, bubbles over at $65, a 442% increase over $12. A little silver "something" weighs in at $13 per oz., up 907% from...
...helped. When the Post invoked First Amendment protection of confidential sources, Mayor Marion Barry assigned a task force of hundreds of police and social workers to locate Jimmy. From the start, narcotics agents doubted that any drug dealer would provide costly heroin to a talkative youngster who might tip off teachers and friends. After three weeks and thousands of man-hours, the search was called off. Says Barry: "I was very firm in my conviction that Miss Cooke's article was part myth, part reality...
...paintings, to metered squirts from an air brush. His procedure for the big portraits that made his name in the 1970s never varied. First Close photographed the sitter, with a depth of field so short that there are blurs of focus in the distance from the eyeball to the tip of the nose, or from the edge of a Up to the lobe of the ear. Then he made color separations of the image and scaled it up to the giant canvas by means of a finely ruled grid. After that the image was transferred, square by square...
...greatest boxer in history. He defended his title a record 25 times. Of 71 professional fights he lost only three, recording 54 knockouts. Yet he once observed: "If you dance, you gotta pay the piper. Believe me, I danced and I paid, and I left him a big fat tip." His dance was a flat-footed shuffle and a blur of powerful arms, and payment was eventual poverty and emotional problems. In the ring, the Brown Bomber was an impassive menace who revealed neither hatred nor benevolence. But from the first time he fought until his death last week...