Word: bum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVEN THE NAME is perfect: Melvin Dummar, the quintessential American loser. He wandered out of obscurity because he gave a bum a ride in his pick-up. And 25 cents. Nine years later, Melvin claimed the bum left him $156 million...
...Wexler levels most of the blame for over emphasizing the negative aspects of the Carter presidency on the American people, who, she says, focus chiefly on their own problems. She feels that the press too, is responsible for the "bum rap" the Carter campaign administration has taken for running a negative and mud-slinging campaign. Wexler explains that the press never focuses on the positive aspects of Carter's campaign speeches...
...used judgeships as political payoffs less often than either Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown or Jerry Brown, the father and son who served immediately before and after him. Even a Carter campaign aide concedes: "You can't go after Reagan for appointing bad judges. That's a bum...
...Influence) are actors' showcases. His camera waits patiently for the smallest behavioral tic or the grandest explosion of dynamite acting. The characters he creates are compulsive talkers, walkers, smokers, prowling the urban nightscape, their lives a cacophonic symphony of desperation, their aggressions spilling out like a Bowery bum's shirttail. Cassavetes encourages openness, improvisation, the primacy of being over performing. An actor prepares, and the moviegoer watches, and Cassavetes approves. He as much as tells his cast: The screen is yours, the script is yours; run with it. For actors trained by such evangelical Methodists as Lee Strasberg...
From 1965 to 1967, lefthanded Kenny Stabler quarterbacked the Tide. Picked by the Oakland Raiders in 1968, he was their starting quarterback from 1973 through 1979, leading the team to a Super Bowl title in 1977. Traded to Houston last spring, he now finds himself working under Bum Phillips, a former Bryant assistant. Like Namath, Stabler was once thrown off the 'Bama team and reinstated after serving his penance. Stabler recalls...