Word: straying
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...standard "big caper" thriller (Topkapi, Rififi) in which a hungry hood just sprung from Sing Sing decides to strip a whole luxury Manhattan apartment house over a Labor Day weekend. He assembles a team of specialists to cut the alarm wires, finger the Klees and terrify any stray remaining tenants. The gimmick is that all the conspirators' haunts are bugged by various government agencies. Though it means that everything from a candy-store pay phone to Central Park itself has to be tapped, almost the whole novel consists of tape-recorded conversations instantly fungible as movie dialogue...
...Paul H. Ehrlich, of Stanford University, warns political activists not to stray from the "real" issues of Vietnam, poverty, and racism with a pious concern for the environment...
...cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence, an awareness of the constant surprise of life, which one rarely finds...
...Department to finance his program. Enlisting police cooperation was no problem, but maintaining it proved more difficult. Police duty is traditionally defined as crime prevention and law enforcement-functions that take only 10% to 20% of a policeman's time. Among his many other duties-directing traffic, recovering stray pets and children, maintaining order-none is more thoroughly unpopular than intervening in personal quarrels...
Enter a newsboy, a stray woman, and a drunk. The boy screams, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it-Riots! Floods in Mississippi! Russian dog bites American man; atomic war in the making...