Word: crapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later, he began scrounging for work in black clubs, notably Curry's Tropicana and the Tiki Club. He did one-nighters at moonshine joints in towns like Greasy Corner, Ark., sometimes with his own group, Sir Isaac and the Doo-Dads. He spent one night sleeping on a crap table, one whole summer living in a junked...
...trade as a compassionate, thoughtful character actor, but the mantle of mass appeal kept sliding off his round shoulders. In 1964, for example, TV audiences were not ready for his first series, The Trials of O'Brien, in which he played a lawyer who could not resist a crap game or meet an alimony-payment deadline. Now, after the troubled '60s, viewers seem readier to identify with a loser hero. In the ratings among TV's new law-and-order leading men, Falk is murdering such handsome smoothies as Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson and James Garner...
...Winship, "is going to keep us on our toes." Another result of the newspaper war is a change in the attitudes of some of the young radical newsmen. Says BAD Editor Ted Gross, 26: "A lot of us tend to think that the great American myth of competition is crap. But there is something about the competition of two papers that makes working for them or reading them exciting. It's what the rest of the media need...
...rich. John Finney says that he would advise a newcomer with only half a million dollars to spend to avoid the Saratoga sales and get his feet wet at cheaper auctions later in the year. And he confides: "What we're dealing in is a very elegant crap-shooting game. What passes for wisdom in it depends on what you can shoot for and still be prepared to lose...
...Sweetback douche powder. Boasts Van Peebles: "You are looking at a black conglomerate." But he still considers himself first and foremost a film maker-and not necessarily for blacks only. "If films are good," he says, "the universality of the human experience will transcend the race and creed and crap frontiers...