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...behind Australia II, Gary Jobson, a winning crew member in Ted Turner's 1977 defense, exclaimed, "This is a disaster!" The flying bridge of the New York Yacht Club boat emptied as its nine straw-hatted, red-trousered committee members went below for a stiff belt...
With his own book under his belt, he hustled down to the University of Texas to deliver a series of lectures on ancient rituals surrounding the inauguration of Greek Olympic Games. "It was just hot," he says of his sojourn in the I one Star State...
...violence is often absurdly out of proportion to the take. "They'll knock out a $400 window for a box of paper clips. They'll kill you for your belt buckle," says Patrolman Dennis Hansen. "They have no value system-zero." Drug dealing is so blatant that a visiting city councilman and plainclothes policeman were solicited at their car windows. Young Cuban entrepreneurs drop plastic Baggies of "Mexican brown" from their hotel fire escapes to accomplices in the street. Heroin, packaged in balloons, is hawked in the park like soda...
...What I remember most about my mother was that she was always beating me. She'd beat me with her high-heeled shoes, with my father's belt, with a potato masher. When I was eight, she black-and-blued my legs so badly, I told her I'd go tell the police. She said, 'Go, they'll just put you into the darkest prison.' So I stayed. When my breasts started growing at 13, she beat me across the chest until I fainted. Then she'd hug me and ask forgiveness. When...
...film's testimony, U.S. Communists were a folk-singing choir who loved picnics, baseball and Joseph Stalin, roughly in that order. Paul Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin) was the party's star tummler, strutting as vivaciously on Death Row as he would have on the Borscht Belt. And Rochelle (Lindsay Grouse) was a righteous, steel-rimmed Yiddish mama...