Word: crushers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very lucky, for I am now going to reveal to you a fact unknown to dozens of the nation's cleverest political pundits. About 15 years ago there was a chunk of malicious fat which managed to waddle its way out of the central scrublands of Georgia. Its name: Crusher Blackwell, all 572 pounds of it. Crusher used to make a fool of himself in front of television cameras by singing ridiculous little jungles like "Jingle bells, jingle bells, I'm gonna stomp Sammartino's head flat." Often he would forget these pathetic rhymes when he was only half...
...Smith Goes to Washington. Pauline Kael once asked whether Frank Capra had an honest bone in his body. Even hearing the question is a crusher, for if Capra is a calculating manipulator, then who is left? To be sure, he was sly behind the camera: Graham Greene wrote that he was the best propagandist since Eisentstein. Greene's proof lay in Capra's exposition of Edward Arnold in his pictures. Hardly anyone has ever done justice to the memory of Arnold, Capra's bloated symbol of all that was wrong with America in three consecutive celebrations of his defeat...
...Pirates pack more power. They top the league in walloping balls over outfield walls. Slugger Willie Stargell is still on hand, but his heir apparent already looms large in the person of Dave Parker; the 6-ft. 5-in., 225-lb. crusher paces the team in home runs and RBis. The players often on base when Stargell and Parker come to bat are Manny Sanguillen and Rennie Stennett. Sanguillen tends to swing at everything-and rarely misses. Stennett tied a major league record recently with seven straight hits in the 22-0 demolition of the Chicago Cubs...
...same problem is a crusher for O Lucky Man! though Anderson's politics have changed. This three-hour picaresque story (again photographed by Ondricek) grew out of a semi-autobiographical comedy Malcolm McDowell, the star of the film, wrote about his early years as a traveling coffee salesman. Anderson and David Sherwin went to work on enlarging McDowell's comedy into a major work. They extended McDowell's ideas into a string of improbable events which eventually present Malcolm McDowell's success -- his rise from coffee salesman to actor -- as a paradigm for humanity. Yet, despite the writers' attempts...
...Eight-ball" Mears, third place finisher, denied yesterday that Radcliffe men discriminate against female pinball players. Mears explained the presence of only one woman, Debbie "Ego-crusher" Sheets, among the top ten vote-getters by saying, "Females have a marked tendency to eschew the Radcliffe pinball environment...