Word: gar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disgrace to the game," Gar cia fumed later. Added First Base Um pire Larry Barnett: "He goes goofy. He can't control himself, screaming, ranting and raving. Every time he comes out, he's shot out of a cannon." As for Weaver, he blithely, if inelegantly, explained: "I was in the bathroom throwing up. They made me sick...
...coat. As the gang's detonation expert, Warren Gates has a hell of a fine time: throughout the film he launches into deliriously obsessive speeches about imagined World War II combat adventures. The other principals, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino and Allen Goorwitz (the actor formerly known as Allen Gar field), all have their own amusing quirks. It's not their fault that Falk and Gates sometimes reduce them to underemployed straight...
SOME OF THE snarpest prickles from the Cactus Leftists have come from the Exploratory Project on Economic Alternatives, a D.C.-based, foundation-sponsored research operation. EPEA is headed by Gar Alperovitz, a highly-respected leftist economist who was even mentioned for Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Alperovitz's response to the wishful-thinkers was, "Thanks but no thanks...
Carter does not fit many Southern stereotypes. He is not a hard drinker, poker player, or profane and garrulous see-gar-chomping raconteur. His humor is low key, his New South approach to voters is cooler than the delivery of the hot stump speechifiers of another era. Carter tells crowds: "When I'm in the White House, you'll have a friend there." In contrast, a prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected...
...Spokane Chronicle's John J. Lemon said of a similar ordi nance that had been proposed in Washington State, "The next victims of such rule making may be whistlers, gum chewers, bone crackers, dandruff scratchers, lint pickers and popcorn eat ers." Not to mention tooth pickers, gar lic eaters, liquor imbibers, belchers, non-bathers and puffers of pot at rock concerts...