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...other company has trouble. We lose good money on somebody else's say-so." A younger miner puts it more bluntly: "If the company gave us protection against wildcat strikes, I'd be willing to cross the picket line. There wouldn't be all this wildcat crap if John L. Lewis [the thunderous U.M.W. leader from 1920 to 1960] were still around. The union has lost control...
...intellectual. When Francois brings Pomme to a party, he listens attentively to a friend describe the current era as "the age of the box." Pomme looks bewildered, but it's unclear whether the narrative aims at showing her as intellectually inadequate or merely unable to swallow the crap. Given this ambivalent attitude about Francois, it's difficult to feel a deep sense of loss when the inevitable break-up occurs...
Ellsworth Oakley, a member of the Mashpee tribe, said yesterday. "This is nothing but a technicality. I think it's a lot of crap that we have to prove that we're a tribe...
Jackson, who had battled (and once nearly come to blows) with Billy Martin during the season-with his arm around Martin after the final game victory: "I'll tell you, nobody better catch Billy Martin and me in a bar together and try to give us some crap. We'll be hell together...
Ellis Rabb can tango with words and he is a sly devil at milking an audience dry of laughter. Peter Evans' John rolls his lines like dice in a crap game he dare not lose. For Mamet, this play is a five-finger exercise, but so nimble that he often seems to be using ten. - T.E.K...