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...This harassment is part of a greater plan to attack our office. We expect the pigs to wipe us out imminently. This morning's action was not a scare tactic but a dry run to check the response of the people," Jones said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panthers Charge Police Harrassment May Lead to Raid | 1/6/1971 | See Source »

...author as well as director and costar. The contributions made by Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara, though, must have been enormous. Cassavetes works in a very personal, freewheeling style that draws heavily on the inspiration of his actors. The performers are so supremely good in their roles that they wipe out any distinction between the actor and the character. The virtuoso feat may be unnoticed by audiences who prefer to assume that the three are merely playing themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Never Less Than Human | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Kitty Harding, a spokesman for the Committee, accused Scalese of "having a personal vendetta against the Panthers." saying, "He's a dangerous man and wants to wipe us out." Harding said that Scalese had also been involved in the raid upon the "Juche" commune last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Panthers Arrested Raiding Party Office | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...thinker to believe that their movement offers a serious alternative to the megamachine. It is too machinelike itself, with youth running in herds that differ little from those that cram corporation offices. Theirs is not a new consciousness but a very ancient and dubious one: a primordial desire to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. But a new start, says Mumford, requires people who have digested the lessons of the past, not rejected them as irrelevant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The View from the Pyramid | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...cops tried to talk them into going home. One was asked by a teenies where Bobby was staying. The cop responded that he was at the Sheraton-with 22 policemen. What was a girl to do? One particularly young one gave the cop a napkin and asked him to wipe it on part of the stage where Bobby had walked. He did and returned it to the grateful girl. I wondered how many die-hard fans of this genre had crowded close to the stage and popped especially heady pimples so that Bobby might walk on the fluid with...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Clearasil's Man of the Year: Bobby Baby | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

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