Word: corner
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Much of the story deals with the drug suppliers, the not-so-furtive street-corner pushers and the vast syndicates behind them. That was the province of the New York Bureau's Sandy Smith, who has made the Mafia his beat since the early 1950s when he was with the Chicago Tribune and during his years on LIFE. Since coming to TIME he has specialized in stories about the mob, gambling, crime in general. Sandy drew on his sources in Washington and New York in tracing the role of organized crime in heroin traffic. Says Smith: "The pusher-especially...
...Obviously he rejects the Zionist formulation once put forward by David Ben-Gurion that "whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God." He can buttress his passion with reason. Israel is a democratic, modern, stabilizing force in a chaotic and brutally backward corner of the world. The Israelis have created a nation and made the desert bloom, thereby more than earning their right to national existence. Israel needs U.S. support to survive, and if Israel were some day to fall, U.S. interests would suffer...
...closeup in bed is extremely disturbing because in the dark the characters' faces become part of the tangibly expressive world of the background. More generally, the characters' detailed actions in the foreground gain incredible emotional resonance from the deeply colored backgrounds, and when a tracking shot turns a corner with a character and sets the background plane at a different angle, the affective quality of the shot is completely changed...
Some of my best friends are my walking shoes tucked away in the corner of my foolish pocket of felt objects . . , -Jim Dine...
...standing slap shot-from about 35 or 40 feet. I saw it coming and managed to catch it in my glove hand. He was two-for-five I saw the next slapper, too. I watched it with interest as it zipped past my ankle into the right corner of the cage...