Word: bogarting
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...Bogart Jackson hoped, he would be able to see snow. Bogart Jackson was a professional golfer, and December for him was just one more divot on the fairway of life. At 25, he was spending this Christmas as he had every other that he could remember--haunting driving ranges and practice putting greens, playing a few satellite tour events, reading Dan Jenkins golf novels, and waiting. Waiting to tee off, waiting to string three solid rounds together, waiting for the front-runners in qualifying tournaments to falter so that his score would earn him a TPA card, which would enable...
...Bogart Jackson had all the skills at his disposal. His muscular legs allowed him to drive with uncommon force; his cat-like reflexes and vision gave him uncanny distance judgement and an unusual capacity to escape sandtraps and rough. He had a steady putting stroke and knew the nuances of the elusive game as well as anyone on the big tour. Yet Bogart Jackson was 25 years old and still scrambling to make it, hanging around courses at dawn to finish his round before the stars started theirs. This December, he told himself, he would succeed. And by the time...
...father had been awarded tenure at the University of Georgia after becoming friendly with a politician named Jimmy Carter. The last time Bogart Jackson and his daddy spoke had been three years...
...waste your life entertaining the doctrine of winnable nuclear war?" Bogart Jackson had responded, before picking up his clubs and leaving...
...this context, Feste, the punning, cynical clown becomes Frank Sinatra, leaning on the plano with a drink, entertaining the nobility but keeping his distance. James Goldstein as Orsino, the duke who pines for the love of Olivia (Gaye Williams), is a Casablanca Bogart, white dinner jacket and all. The allusion makes his slow transition to lovesick goon particularly hilarious when he takes to staring soulfully into space, smoking cigarettes from a gold case and obliviously blowing clouds of smoke into the face of Viola (Caroline Isenberg), who, from under her disguise as his servant, gazes just as wistfully...