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...clearly was not in his saggy-jowled, I know what it's like to be poor days, knows his subject extraordinarily well. He begins by informing the class that he does not. "Anybody who tells you he's an expert in politics," he says, "is either a fool or a knave, and probably both." Then he launches into a lesson on the basics. Get a good public relations director. Figure out how big a role your family will play. Get a good photograph taken-and never, never at the end of a tough day. "Have someone on your...
...appropriate passages in the book, which then guide his actions. Tarot cards are another favorite. The standard tarot deck has 78 cards, 56 of the "minor arcana," similar to and forerunners of modern playing cards, and 22 "major arcana" cards depicting such mystical symbols as The Devil, The Fool, The Lovers and The Hanged Man, each of which has many interpretations. The tarots can be laid out in several ways to tell fortunes and interpret character; one method sets them in the form of a cross, another in an outline of a "tree of life...
...looked even more pathetic three weeks later when Syracuse stepped on that same Crusader defense for 66 points). And when it became apparent that Harvard's defensive secondary and its two veteran quarterbacks were more baffled by the Restic system than any of the teams they were trying to fool, some fans even became nostalgic about the Yovicsin era--after all, his uncomplicated defenses were often very stingy, and his offense once scored 16 points in the final 42 seconds to tie an undefeated Yale team...
...seven-and-seven in the nightclub, she is endearing without being bathetic, absurd without being ridiculous. When Earl Tibbits prances around the school bus calling "Pussycat! Oh pussycat!" and suddenly Ruby comes bounding around the corner, enormous in a big pink dress, Earl looks like more of a fool than does Ruby, because the film has made us appreciate in her qualities which Earl...
...vaudeville-house owner who switched to radio at the start of the Depression, Trendle sought to turn his struggling Detroit station into a moneymaker with a program that would be "good, clean and long-lived." Hence his Masked Rider of the Plains didn't smoke, swear, drink, fool with women or even kill the bad guys; he did endure and make a fortune for Trendle. The Lone Ranger lasted 20 first-run years on radio and twelve on television, and the show's popularity inspired Trendle to create two more true-blue heroes: The Green Hornet and Sergeant...