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...Sidney. Mackendrick mentioned the Ben Jonson play to the actors as they shot outside "21" late one night; but he might also have said that Sidney was the fly to J.J.'s taut, watchful spider, and 52nd Street was his web. Whatever Sidney's floating status as villain and victim, Curtis was the victor in the movie. I'll bet that when he first read the script he thought exultantly, "That's me all over!" Curtis may have spent the 50s playing pretty boys at Universal, but he was still Bernie Schwartz from the Bronx, and "Sweet Smell" gave Curtis...
...pinch - so he says. Mr. Falco, whom I did not invite to sit at this table tonight, is a hungry press agent, and fully up to all the tricks of his very slimy trade. [He pulls out a cigarette and turns to his victim.] Match me, Sidney." Sidney: "Not right this minute, J.J." - from the film "Sweet Smell of Success...
...part, PSLM is a victim of its own success; soon almost all Harvard workers will be making well above the sit-in standard of $10.25 an hour, even accounting for inflation. Yet the group can’t simply declare victory. Throughout its campaign, the group steadily avoided any clear explanation of which wages are just and which are “disgusting”—and the point has been forced, now that wages are high enough for some workers to accept them. Debates over $11 versus $14 don’t lend themselves to protest signs...
...Israelis also continued their policy of targeting Palestinian security forces and activists they link to the violence. Last week in the Gaza Strip, the Israelis killed a Palestinian general, the highest-ranking Palestinian Authority victim of an Israeli gun in this conflict. But the hits sometimes go wrong. Israeli soldiers tried to kill Hussein Abu Kweik, a Hamas activist in Ramallah. But when they shot up his car, Abu Kweik wasn't in it; his wife was. She died, along with her three children. Like Arafat, Sharon is unable to control all his people. Last Tuesday seven children...
Women—whose oppression under the Taliban gained international attention—have also disproportionately fallen victim to tuberculosis...