Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expressed the prevailing attitude on the force: "This is the main thing. You've got to like people. You can't use words to somebody you wouldn't want to be used to you." A patrolman seconded his appraisal, "If you can't get along and communicate with the kids, it's no job. If a boy goes to this college, there must have been some screening and he must be a pretty nice kid...
...want to crash people at the storefront either because it really interferes with our counseling work. On the other hand, we can't just not put them up at all," he said. "If you're having a really heavy discussion with a kid you can't just bounce him in the street...
...little kid, I used to sell newspapers around East Cambridge-the Daily Record -and met a lot of politicians. I always wanted to be somebody. I always wanted to do something," he said. At age 14, Vellucci began working for the Harvard Square office of Western Union, delivering telegrams throughout the Harvard community. At age 16, he went into the coal delivery business and, in two years, built up a fleet of coal trucks. In 1933, the Depression and the general conversion from coal to oil forced Vellucci out of business. Then 18 years later, he began working...
...know the people of Boston have been so good to me for so many years," she said with her tiny, little-girl voice as she stood before the cameras in her black satin dress (below the knees), black stockings and white kid gloves...
...film owes its very existence to the recently successful two-man picaresques: Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy and especially Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But like a child aping an elder, it mimics the gestures and misses the point. The viewer can sense behind the film the search for a proven prescription. But such scrambles are self-deceptive. The movie business is too old to live on formulas; Little Fauss and Big Halsy evokes the repellent image of an adult pulling on a pacifier...