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...that no-trespassing order keep me from going to the park with my little boy and shagging a few fly balls now and then?" Hanes, a onetime football and baseball star at nearby Birmingham-Southern College, smiled. "If it were me and my boy, I think I just might slip right over rather than deny that boy of mine the sort of pleasures I used to know." At the end of the two-hour meeting the mayor remained adamant. "I don't think any of you want a nigger mayor or a nigger police chief," he said...
...showing at 2 Divinity Avenue last Wednesday. Leacock's two movies are not merely experiments, but fully conceived works of art with big implications for movie-makers and actors, since Leacock has found a way to make "the method" obsolete. His camera handles so easily that he can slip unobtrusively into private conversations and capture unguarded sequences directly from life. He never has to worry about motivation because everything he films is naturally motivated; he just records selectively from what he sees...
...major department stores, Christmas planning starts just about the time that the kids are breaking their first Christmas toys-the day after Christmas past. The long preparations begin with studies of sales slips, to determine what sold well, what proved a bomb. After that come committee meetings, buyers' meetings, salesgirl meetings. By mid-January, buyers are packed and jetting off around the U.S. and to faraway countries to find merchandise and to place orders. When shipments arrive, some stores slip a few new items on the counters to see how they sell; if customers pick them up, the items...
...Blow-by is Detroit's name for the unburned fuel vapors that escape from the cylinders of an internal combustion engine during the compression stroke. From the cylinders, the fuel enters the crankcase, where its hydrocarbon-rich fumes mingle with the vapors from hot engine oil, then slip out through a vent into the surrounding atmosphere...
...more than absurd, they are bestial and very evil. The crucial incident of the first chapter (Snow's novels abound in crucial incidents) is not a hasty or disastrous slip of the tongue, as it is the gruesome death of a young assistant keeper who is crushed to death by a diseased giraffe. For the Zoo's leaders, however, death has only a Snowbound political significance: Falcon, the Curator of Mammals, is directly responsible for the killing, but Leacock, the Director, decides not to mention the incident to him because in his own campaign for a "National Zoological Reserve...