Word: bums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Cimino will be lucky if he ever gets another job, perhaps not because his movie is terrible, but because it is so huge and terrible. The golden boy stands in shame. The kid had potential. He coulda been a contenda. And instead, he's a bum--with nothing to console him but his delusions of grandeur...
...loose tiles, the exploding engines, even the last-minute computer failure, to say nothing of the inevitable jokes about America's "space lemon" and "flying brickyard." Could past scorn actually have increased the passion of this new embrace? The shuttle had become a kind of technological Rocky, the bum who perseveres to the end, the underdog who finally wins. Columbia's success, explained Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "ties in with so many of our cultural themes. It's Horatio Alger. It's The Little Engine That Could...
Louis scored a T.K.O. in one bout he never fought. He told Muhammad Ali on television, "When I was champion, I went on what they called the bum-of-the-month tour." "You mean I'm a bum?" Ali asked. "You woulda been on the tour," Louis deadpanned. Many experts who saw both men in their prime agree that the Bomber would have whupped the Greatest. Even Ali, who remained strangely silent about Louis' death, concurs. As he tearfully told TIME last week, "Joe Louis was my inspiration. I idolized him. He wrote the book on boxing...
Injuries also hurt the thinclads' finish in the meet, Hunt said. He predicted that if Darlene F. Beckford '82, who was grounded in Cambridge with a bum knee, had been able to compete. "She would have easily won the 1500- and 800-meter races, giving us 14 or 15 more points," and moving Harvard's team score into second place...
Gaines attributes his drive to his family: "We've always been real competitive, dedicated to excelling. If I want to get anywhere in life. I'll have to have this same kind of dedication after swimming. If I don't I'll end up a bum in the gutter...