Word: felson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ping-pong: Pool has Fast Eddie Felson; ping-pong has Forrest Gump...
...quick fixes. But they -- like many inmates -- argue that the prison system would function more effectively if justice were served more swiftly, sentences imposed more reliably and space allocated more rationally. The lag of months, sometimes years, between the crime and the punishment is counterproductive. Says Marcus Felson, a sociology professor at the University of Southern California: "((An electric)) plug that shocks you a year later or once in a thousand times isn't going to deter...
...accepted by them. Invited for the first time to join their weekly poker game, he innocently ups the stakes, then proceeds to clean everybody out. "This is more about bonding than poker, isn't it?" he asks. Precisely: the next day, he's ostracized like Fast Eddie Felson at the neighborhood pool hall. One has to go back to The Andy Griffith Show to find a more astute, affectionate satire of small-town provincialism...
Paul Newman stars as Fast Eddie Felson, an arrogant, amoral hustler, determined to sink his rival, sharp-shooter Minnesota Fasts (Jackie Gleason). Felson risks all he owns, eventually destroying himself in his battle against Fats and his gambler-promoter (George C. Scott). Felson's game is spoiled by the woman he falls for (Piper Laurie...