Word: bum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess I've grown up with flying in my family," he says "I've been flying since before I was even born." His mother once worked as a stewardess, and his father flew passenger planes for Delta until he died two years ago. "He was a dirt-poor Tennessee bum," Russell says proudly, "He taught me a lot more than just flying...
...other coaches didn't appreciate it when Clemson boss Danny Ford left his first team in for the whole game to run up the score against hapless Wake. It would also seem that Ford learned nothing about coaching etiquette during his years under Bear Bryant, the man who taught Bum Phillips to take off his hat when his team played indoors...
Whistle blowing or bum...
...Bum...
...piles of pink carcasses acquired, despite their comic-strip mannerisms of drawing, a degree of pessimism that verged on the tragic. Guston's Head and Bottle, 1975, with its profile of a face (a self-portrait?) violently compressed into an eye and a chin prickled with a bum's gray stubble, is absurd in a sense; but the conviction with which Guston carries it off is worrisome and angry, full of a Celine-like misery...