Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn so he can listen to an old master in a smoky nightclub. For the French, love is l'amour fou. Francis is wise enough to love Turner and mad enough to let this...
...year-old "real Derby" at Epsom Downs next month. Broad Brush, an affable bay who likes to be taken on joyrides in his trainer's van, came third. All around, it was a happy day for practically everyone but the 1-2 favorites Snow Chief and Badger Land, who finished eleventh and fifth. By the Dosage Index, a perplexing pedigree calibrator much under discussion these days, Snow Chief's fate had been foretold. But the betting public ignored the arithmetic and forgot the old man. Sentimentalists collected $37.40 for $2 on Willie...
...interesting idea, but we're not inclined to go ahead ourselves," said Richard I. Badger, assistant dean of the University of Chicago Law School...
...These people prey on the anxiety of law school applicants," Badger said of cram course educators...
...sequestered the crew's families following the accident, network executives insist they would have avoided such interviews in any case. "We had our chance at the time of the accident," says Jeff Gralnick, vice president and executive producer of special programming for ABC. "The first rule is not to badger the bereaved...