Word: forking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chips but not much to say. Great Big is, however, credited with the novel's title line ("I got hungry and forgot my manners"), which is Breslin's blunt way of making the historical point that people who do not have enough to eat are not concerned about which fork to use on the fish...
...modulated portrait. Watch him try to con a tourist couple by rattling off a list of bogus screenwriting credits, casually mispronouncing Ninotchka. Or, slumped on a couch, lamenting to a friend (Dennis Franz) that he has come up empty on a script the studio needs that afternoon: "Put a fork in me, Lou, I'm done." Cut and print...
Polly's stay at the gallery, which eventually turns into a permanent job as secretary, casts her as an outsider looking in on the world of art and its pretentious inhabitants. She eavesdrops on discussions of painting which include comments like "the fork is irrelevant" and terms like "oblique primativism." Polly is both awed and enraptured, and throughout the movie we sympathize with this schleppy, hopelessly unfashionable observer...
...mechanism more meaningful than the strict compensation system in place since 1977. Over an entire decade of free enterprise, it has brought about the emancipation of a solitary St. Louis defensive back named Norm Thompson. No matter the player, pro football's unique partner-owners have been disinclined to fork over high draft choices for the rights to their brethren's superstar. It is probably fair to say that the owners have competed more strenuously against alien forces like the defunct United States Football League than against one another...
...offer prospective customers cut-rate telephone calls that are placed by using access codes stolen from long-distance phone companies. The most likely buyers: people waiting in urban bus or train terminals, especially immigrants who might want to call a loved one in a foreign land without having to fork over a fistful of quarters. At New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, the going illegal rate is $2 to call anywhere in the U.S. and $4 for an overseas hookup...