Word: trashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will probably render a decision before the end of May on a third lawsuit--an appeal by the Boston Edison Company claiming the Boston Redevelopment Authority followed improper procedure in allowing Harvard to make engineering, design and cost changes, and to eliminate trash incineration facilities in the power plant plans in October...
That came in 1951, when the abbé lost his assembly seat and with it his only income. But just when the commune seemed imperiled, a chiffonier (ragpicker) at Emmaus devised a new source of money: he taught his colleagues how to rummage through trash for useful objects. Scrap paper was sold, broken furniture and appliances were repaired and marketed. The commune became self-supporting and earned enough to add new centers elsewhere. A credo evolved: "Give instant help to those nearest and in need. Show them how to help themselves. Afterward let them help others...
...three women and two men who deliver the numbers really deliver. Armelia McQueen is a husky-dusky sybil of song, Irene Cara wraps her voice in plaintive melancholy, and Nell Carter has a sensual verve that turns Cash for My Trash into a show-stopping aphrodisiac...
...build as time passes. When Teach brandishes a revolver, the audience feels he must surely use it, but this is a bit of deceptive foreshadowing. Instead, Teach goes berserk, provoked by Bobby's apparent lies. He brains the poor kid with a lamp and then proceeds to trash the set in a fine display of uncontrolled rage. This moment of Brando-esque pique is genuinely frightening, but somewhat inexplicable. Just as suddenly as he began, Teach stops, becoming apologetic. With all his bravado dissipated, he becomes pitiful...but why? The motivations remain cloudy, and so the ending, which features...
...MOST ENJOYABLE part of reviewing something by Harold Robbins is seeing how many synonyms for the word "trash" you can think up without resorting to a thesaurus. Actually, the book on which the film was based wasn't even good bilge, and the screenwriters have been awfully faithful to the dull details. What keeps Robbins's readers interested in his non-characters is their sexual appetites, but the kind of graphic descriptions Robbins indulges in--those titillating, sizzling, tongue-wrapped-around-anything-that-moves scenes--are not exactly the stuff of "R" rated movies, and especially one with a cast...