Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fifth Avenue, he was accosted by three women in a yellow car. One of them got out and suggested the possibility of deepening their relationship. "I took the whole thing from the ironic side," says Strauss. But the lady took the whole thing from another side, light-fingered his wallet and passport and zipped off into the car with them. Police promptly recovered Strauss's property, thanks to a cab driver who took down the license number, but bullnecked, pugnacious Strauss went home to a ribbing from the German press. Asked Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Will...
...expunging his bride. Instead, the wastrel learns to endure her and discover the joys of financial management. That leaves Henry with something of a vocation, but it does not leave the audience with much of a picture. Once the laughs subside, the project, like Henry's old wallet, is bare. A New Leaf may be the first film in which Matthau is miscast. He retains his unique webfooted shuffle, and still sends home his jokes special delivery. But his astringent lines ("That woman is not primitive, she is feral") belong on the palate of a George Sanders...
...doctor in The Grand Hotel whose face seemed split down the middle-dark on one side, fair on the other-by just such a discoloration. In the movie, the doctor is present full face to the camera when the hotel thief is deciding whether or not to steal the wallet of the accountant, and at the close of the movie as well, when he pronounces with heavy irony (with the dark side of his face turned completely away from the camera so that the audience only sees his clear side in profile) that "People come and people go, but nothing...
...much at this time because the boys (about 16 years old) were headed for the Yard and I was certain that people there would help me. I chased them across the Yard, in tears of frustration by this time, calling for help. I was shouting. "That guy took my wallet. Will someone please help me?" It seems to me that a girl visibly crying in the Yard and calling for assistance should evoke some response. Not one person of the many who were walking through the Yard helped me, though it was fairly obvious that I was distressed and needed...
...most upsetting factor about the episode was not that my wallet was stolen and not retrieved, but that not one person in Harvard Yard (and there were dozens, not just one or two) helped me. After I lost the boys and was returning to the Coop a guy stopped me in the Yard and said, "Hey, I saw you chasing these boys through the Yard and yelling. Did you ever get your wallet back?" I was appalled...