Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doomed romantic hero. Thinking back on the girl in Chattanooga, he remarks, "Surely no life was ever so quickly and completely transformed by love as mine was." Yet his only visible passion is self-absorption. He cannot even muster much interest in Alex Mercer, "my closest friend there in Memphis." He admits several times his inability to remember just how many children Alex and his wife possess...
...fascinating tidbits about Mob mores. Ilario Zannino was heard explaining how dangerous it is to kill just one member of a gang. "If you're clipping people," he said, "I always say, make sure you clip the people around him first. Get them together, 'cause everybody's got a friend. He could be the dirtiest (expletive) in the world, but someone that likes this guy, that's the guy that sneaks you." They heard Zannino and John Cincotti complaining about a competing Irish gang of hoods. Said Cincotti: "They don't have the scruples that we have." Zannino agreed...
...lots. For four days Rita did not mention her vision to another soul, largely because "I didn't want to be put away." It was hard withholding the news because she "wanted to share it so badly with someone." Finally, on Sunday night, Dorothy Droll, Rita Ratchen's best friend for 35 years, came to visit, and Rita said, "Dorothy, I want to show you something." They drove out of town about two miles and parked on the shoulder of the road by the Fostoria Country Club. Rita pointed to the tank across the highway, and Dorothy "saw it immediately...
...next night Rita took another friend, "and she went bananas. She's Spanish, and they can really get excited." Over the next week the word spread through Fostoria like prairie fire. One night there were twelve cars out there next to the golf course; another night 20. Soon there were 150. One witness reported it took an hour and a half to drive from Putt 'N' Pond Park to the soybean tank, a distance of two miles. Rita called a photographer named Andy Duran at the paper, the Review Times, and asked for a picture, but Andy said...
...consensus at the symposium: self-deprecating humor is a President's best friend and weapon. "The chance to be seen as a warm, relaxed human being with a twinkle-in-the-eye approach to himself is just too good an opportunity to miss," said Bob Orben, a leading gag writer and author of many of Ford's best lines. "Humor reaches out, puts a warm, affectionate arm around an audience and says, 'I am one of you. I understand you.' If you can laugh together, you can vote together...