Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beauty and Free Speech. It is a time-honored way to run a local political campaign: paste pictures of your candidate on anything that does not move. But in 1979, when a group called Taxpayers for Vincent stapled City Council Candidate Roland Vincent's posters on utility poles, Los Angeles workers tore them down. They were enforcing a city ordinance forbidding the posting of signs on public property...
...Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked him, "Why did you play that weak, sniveling character?" Replied Douglas: "I'm an actor." Warned the Duke: "Yeah, well, don't let me catch you playing a role like that again...
Providence Mayor Vincent ("Buddy") Cianci Jr.'s most prized political perk was a Lincoln Continental with maroon seats and license plates with the number 10000. Last week the sleek sedan shared space next to city hall with a moving van. After nearly ten years in office, during which he was praised for revitalizing the city and tainted by the corruption that surrounded him, the effervescent mayor was forced to resign because of a felony conviction: he received a suspended five-year prison sentence for assaulting a man he claimed was having an affair with his estranged wife...
Just to make Tony even more angry. Sandy appointed his friend Vincent J. O'Connell Jr. to the rank of police major-over Tony's heated objections. Vinnic is a private detective who had helped out Mayor Cianci during his trial for assaulting...
...simply ignore the procedures we just passed," said Vincent T. Chang '84, adding. "How can we justify the largest grant ever in council history without adequate review...