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...last week, despite sporadic huddles between negotiators and politicians, the city and the picketing welfare workers were as far away as ever from a sensible solution. From their ranks in the picket lines, the strikers hurled highly unsocial curses and epithets ("Scab!" "Fink!") at nonstrikers, while some union officers began calling for welfare families to mobilize and march on the centers...
...Fink Is a Squid. No greater praise can be bestowed on a person, place or thing in California than to be bitchin (a shortened, reverse-English form of sons o' bitchin'). Degrees of superiority at Colorado College begin with mean, work up toward brutal and savage. The ancient real cool is still admired at tradition-hobbled Harvard, but the University of Florida has gone on to zero cool, and Colorado College's cool denotes square. How bad is that? reflects admiration; to be unreal is to be impressive...
...language of personal insult flourishes. A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely...
Cayatte's fundamental conception, to present a twice-told tale in the form of a double feature, is mildly stimulating. Unhappily, the marriage his movies describe is immoderately dull. She is a rat fink, he is a mouse fink, and their life together is stinking cheese. After inhaling Anatomy of a Marriage (as the films are collectively called) for almost four hours, an audience can only numbly wonder how Cayatte could imagine that two bad movies would make a good...
...bookmakers labeled the Dagenham caper a "builder play," and have occasionally taken a licking from the same technique. The most notable builder play took place in 1932 at Agua Caliente race track in Mexico. Staged by West Coast Gamblers Baron Long and Harry Fink, it boosted the odds on a horse called Linden Tree from a logical 7 to 10 to almost 10 to 1. By betting Linden Tree heavily with U.S. bookmakers, Long and Fink made a killing...