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...lyrics are mostly in Portuguese, but his songs, with their optimism and off-the-cuff spirit, transcend language barriers. There is an only-just-bounded energy to this music, a warmth that is a welcome change from dark northern days. Close your eyes and you could almost be 5000 miles away...
...star-struck sports fan, and his friends ranged from the Duke of Windsor to Joe DiMaggio, from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Mobster Frank Costello. Generous and impulsive, he once dropped more than $60,000 on a World Series bet, and would carry down-and-out customers on the cuff for months on end. Master of the boorish putdown, he called his famous customers "creeps" and "crumb-bums." "If he doesn't insult you, he doesn't love you," Actor Pat O'Brien once said. "And if he doesn't love you, then you have missed...
...certain sensitivity lurks beneath his dull manner, however. He goes all gooey, for instance, over his pet turtles, Cuff and Link. And the lady who works in the pet shop (Talia Shire) exerts a claim on his shy heart, though of course he has trouble articulating his feelings. There is really no place for poor Rocky to go but up-if only because an entire film devoted to so dreary a fellow would be intolerable. Almost immediately it is clear that this is another trip up the trail immortally, definitively explored by Brando in On the Waterfront over two decades...
...Sundays, before church, as my father knotted his tie and put his cuff-links on, we would crowd around his dresser for the privilege of seeing my grandfather's gold football charm. The charm was two small footballs linked together, each proclaiming in blue engraving: Y.U.F.B.A.C.S. Flanders. Below that, on one of the miniature spheroids was etched, 1904: Yale 12, Princeton 0 Yale 12, Harvard 0; on the other, 1905: Yale 23, Princeton4, Yale 6, Harvard...
There was a distinct Populist strain in Carter's campaign for Governor in 1970. He ran against the former Governor, who got to be known-not by Jimmy-as "Cuff Links" Carl Sanders; he also ran against what he called "the economic elite and the political power brokers." One of his most effective TV spots in that campaign showed Carter walking up to the door of a country club and having it slammed in his face. He pronounced himself a people's candidate, unwelcome in the banks and board rooms. As Governor, he made some enemies among businessmen...