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Plus, you get to yell out "You're a bum!" when they drop the ball on third down...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Me? Cheer? For Them? | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...player cooling his heels on the sidelines for a half an hour while his opponent hits through. Darryl Zanuck, one of old Hollywood's croquet fanatics, who included Harpo Marx, Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Jourdan, described the predicament: "When you're three-ball dead, you're just a useless bum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Windsor, California Such Splendor On the Grass | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...shouldn't take much time in the bowels of the subway system to realize that for every disease-ridden, drugcrazed bum who manages to stagger through a turnstile without depositing a token, there are three 30-year-old downtown businesspeople who enjoy showing off the hurdling skills they developed while on the track team at some elite college like, say, Harvard. I found further proof of the lack of correlation between socioeconomic condition and depravity in what I saw at the Lowell House Formal last Saturday night at the Harvard Club of Boston...

Author: By David N. Greenwald, | Title: What Harvard Needs | 5/16/1990 | See Source »

...have been lured by the promise of quick financial rewards. Taylor also discovered that female gangs, once considered relatively harmless adjuncts to male crews, have become dangerous, independent groups. In an interview with Taylor's research team, one female gang member bragged of ousting unwanted guests who tried to "bum rush" a party. The guests fled, she said, after "I cut loose on their fake asses with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Streets: Carl S. Taylor | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...Cope is also well-cast as Schigolch, the bum pretending to be Lulu's father. His his authoritative stage presence is matched by his clear vision of the role. Unfortunately, Cope and Tegzes are rarely on stage by themselves, and the rest of the cast tends to display a lower level of proficiency in their parts...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Direction and Complexity Mar Lowell House Opera 'Lulu' | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

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