Word: asses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begins to shrink and becomes an instant celebrity, with her own fan club and an appearance on the Mike Douglas Show. (Yes, Mike is on hand, middle-aged paunch and all, singing "little things mean a lot." There's a delicious sadistic joy in watching Douglas make an utter ass of himself and wondering if he knows the meaning of self-parody...
...Charged with selling heroin, Hazel Morrison, a black woman of 35, hired Cucinotta to represent her for $200. But before he could, two federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents went to Morrison's home. They were blunt: "Your lawyer is going to make an ass out of himself, and you too," said one. Get rid of Cucinotta, they urged, and help the DEA finger a bigger pusher in return for leniency. If she refused, they said, she could expect a "stiff sentence" from the judge, who "hates black people...
...portraying neurotic tools, the three lead actors deliver uniformly fine performances. As Jean, the social-climbing, "wandering intellectual", Roger-Pierre--a paunchy, fifty-ish Charlie Chaplin, sans mustache--is the perfect ambitious bureaucrat: a tyrant with his wife, children, and mistress but a wimpy, play-by-the-rules kiss-ass in the office. Nicole Garcia's Janine represents that curious person you know well but who is either brilliant and wily or a complete and utter moron--and you can't decide which it is. Gerard Depardieu, oddly enough, looks more like Cro-Magnon Man in a three-piece suit...
...would say we pretty much kicked ass," Harvard midfielder John Lyons said...
...issues have been obscured in the race by mud as thick as a Los Angeles slide. Dornan is an expert slinger; he has called Peck "a sick, pompous little ass" who is a "Daddy's boy looking for something to do." Early in the campaign, Dornan charged that Peck in 1978 accepted an illegal campaign contribution from an Alabama businessman who is in federal prison for fraud. The charge backfired: the businessman did try to contribute $13,000, but Peck eventually returned the checks. Peck faults Dornan for his membership, now terminated, on the advisory board of the right...