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...makes it distinctive is its shellbursts of lunatic comedy. Thunderbolt and the kid hitch a ride with a crazy who has the exhaust pipe of the car channeled up into the back seat, a caged raccoon riding in the front seat, and a couple dozen rabbits stashed in the trunk. "What am I going to do with all these rabbits?" he bellows, opening up the trunk and blasting away at them with his shotgun, which he also commences to turn on Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. This movie adeptly creates the sort of antic cartoon world where crooks case the getaway route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ebullient Heist | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

Perched on the trunk of a taxicab at Broad and Chancellor streets, Mrs. Alberta Taylor, a retired schoolteacher, gazed with admiration at the massive throng-bigger, said some, than the crowds that turned out to mark the end of World War II-and declared: "It's been so long since we've had anything to root for in Philadelphia. I'm so excited and proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The New Philadelphia Story | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...Jewish leaders who did have contact with the Nazis for the Germans established indigenous Jewish chiefs of ghettoes. These people were not necessarily Zionist and to call them collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry is an outrageous bending of what is a complex story laboriously documented in Isaiah Trunk's recent book, Judenrat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON COLLABORATION | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...kidnaping of Patty Hearst. On Feb. 4, two black men and a white woman dragged the screaming girl from the apartment she shared with Fiancé Weed near the Berkeley campus of the University of California. They badly beat Weed on the head with a bottle, stuffed Patty into the trunk of a stolen car and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hearst Nightmare | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

While visiting San Francisco last week, Nelson T. Shields IV, 23, of Greenville, Del., enjoyed a game of lacrosse with friends, then gave a fellow player a hand in moving a rug. Still clad in his playing shorts, sweatshirt and tennis shoes, he leaned over the trunk of a car to make room for the rug, when three fatal pistol shots whizzed seemingly out of nowhere and hit him in the back. Shields' death was the twelfth in the series of bizarre, random "Zebra" attacks -apparently not linked with the S.L.A.-that have plagued the city for 21 terrifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fear in the Streets of San Francisco | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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