Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brute strength was enough," he says. "Now people are running around with hatpins, knives, even guns. You gotta be alert. You gotta know who to take off." Once Ronnie and other gang members followed a man into an apartment elevator, pushed him up against a wall and demanded his wallet. The man pulled out a .45-cal. pistol so they fled...
...CENTRAL QUEST for love and acceptance belongs to Billy Tully. Once the object of the crowds' adulation. Once married to a beautiful woman who deserted him when he started losing, he still carries the picture of his former wife in his wallet. To again have his stature and to literally possess this woman are the objects of Tully's persistent, but futile dreaming. All of the sadness of the movie is echoed in his words: "Some women love you for yourself, but it doesn't last long...
...real Andre Previn, who has since recovered his stolen wallet, cites this story to illustrate his impact on music audiences since he became principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra four years ago. Previn is England's newest cottage industry, a musician in constant permutation-conductor-composer, composer-pianist, pianist-conductor-producing music in such unremitting abundance on television, recordings and in the concert halls that one expects any day to find him busking with mouth organ for the queues at the Palladium...
...your tastes are dictated by the bulge in your wallet, there's a good deal of regular free-cheap music. Regular Sunday afternoon concerts attract crowds to the Cambridge Common. These feature primarily unknown, but often excellent, local jazz and rock bands playing primarily for exposure. It's the kind of total experience afternoon in which the people watching are more important than the music being played. Go to see and be seen...
Under the leadership of one Salah Ghaled, a psychotic with a wallet full of atrocity photos and a rhetorical style normally found only in real life,* they are working up a terrorist attack on Is rael. From Howell's trembling point of view, the plan - which involves radio-controlled rockets and bombs (in plas tic bags) is all too ingenious. From everyone else's, too, come to think...