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...exactly offensive or entirely appealing, Marino has several grace notes to offset a sometimes snarly street-corner manner. A ready laugh, for one. "Just taking it easy, having fun," he likes to say. His common speech owes something to Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, though he can shift from "dese" and "dose" to a surprising eloquence. He sways behind the center like a royal palm, but it is a greater wonder how he can swagger sitting down and strut standing still. A compact passing release is characteristic of his general economy of movement and thought. "Most quarterbacks have that high...
...pompously awful weekly column about magazines in the Boston Globe. He gives himself the perfect tough-guy target--a wimpy prison bureaucrat who mouths the tired liberal dogma about "rehabilitation," Oh. Higgins destroys the wimp alright, but just when we expect the sermon about how the only thing dese guys understands is a kick in the ass. Higgins surprises us. And the worldly warden says, "my way wasn't very successful either' And he adds...
Sylvester Stallone has become Hollywood's self-appointed poet of the simple-minded. He speaks Brooklynese, and diamonds of wisdom in the form of dese, dems and dats stream out of Cosmo, Stallone's character in Paradise Alley ("Nature's a funny thing"). Directed and written by Stallone (he even bellows the theme song), Paradise Alley invites comparisons with Rocky...
...inside either. Cross the East River from Manhattan into Brooklyn on the D train and all you'll see will be run-down houses, grimy and depressing factories, litter-lined streets and people. Three million people. Italian, Black, Jewish, Hispanic, Irish people. And not one of them ever said dese, dem, dose in his life...
Sanford was Governor of South Carolina from 1960 to 1965 and has been influential in the Democratic Party. He is now one of about a dese Democratic who say they want to be president...