Word: wardener
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...rumor had been circulating at Nevada State Prison in Carson City for nearly five years, but no one took it seriously. Finally, the new warden dispatched a special security squad to check it out. Sure enough, there in the prison shop were a three-wheel gocart, a motorcycle engine, a rear rotor blade-in short, more or less everything needed to build a helicopter except the main overhead blade. The criminal masterminds were a welder, a plumber and an electrician serving long sentences in maximum security. Warden George Sumner contends that the plot would never have flown anyway: "If they...
...perfect tough-guy target--a wimpy prison bureaucrat who mouths the tired liberal dogma about "rehabilitation," Oh. Higgins destroys the wimp alright, but just when we expect the sermon about how the only thing dese guys understands is a kick in the ass. Higgins surprises us. And the worldly warden says, "my way wasn't very successful either' And he adds...
...night, the cell is asleep. The yard in front of the building is shrouded in snow and washed with fluorescent light. The barking of the police German shepherds and the squeak of the warden's shoes can be heard through the bars. There is no way of knowing what time it is: the prisoners are deprived of watches. The warden is making his rounds. A miniature walkie-talkie attached to his chest emits a muffled cacophony of incomprehensible orders...
...warden stops. Silhouetted behind him is a high metal fence topped by barbed wire. He peers suspiciously into a barred window. Inside, everything is dark and quiet. Only the heavy breathing of the sleeping men is audible. Through the black of night can be glimpsed twelve steel cots that have been pushed together and stacked to the ceiling in the cell. Earlier the prisoners had formed a choir. Singing through the slightly opened window, they had intoned: "Unto Thee, Lord, we call: restore a free Fatherland...
Shampoo (Law School Auditorium): Travel with Warren Beatty on this wacky intergalactic adventure through space and time. Beatty, as the invincible Flash Speedo, along with sidekick Crusty Oldguy (Jack Warden) and faithful dog Arfie (Barbara Stanwyck) fiods himself in one sticky situation after another. Watch him battle Goldie Hawn as the hair-raising Dumb Blond Monster from the planet Nomind, a creature so terrible, its mere touch can turn a normal man into a silly sex object...