Word: gil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gil Johnson, 24, of the Bronx, N.Y., is uneasy about the younger generation. "They don't take no talking. They just come out shooting." He had a friend who was killed after stepping on someone else's foot. "If he had said, 'I'm sorry' or 'Scuse me' or something like that, he'd be alive today...
Cambridge firefighter Gil Albert, another lifelong buddy, said that Russell didn't use the largely ceremonial office for self-gratification, but rather, for the betterment of fellow Cantabs...
...handed: the Government's $1.5 billion guarantee of Chrysler loans was essential. Still, it was like the underdog pool player in a high-stakes game who announces an impossible bank shot involving awkward, oblique angles and chancy ricochets, and then does it. All over the country, people were impressed. Gil MacDougald of Atlanta thinks Iacocca is great, and has a plausible sociological explanation to boot. "In America," says MacDougald, a window washer, "people pull for underdogs and they just love a winner. Iacocca was both...
...Hollywood, there is panic. Is a producer liable for a character who escapes from a film and is wandering around New Jersey in a pith helmet? And what of Gil Shepherd, the actor who created him (also played by Daniels, who is, to borrow one of Tom's favorite words, "fetching" in both roles). In two shakes of a trimotor's tail the West Coast crowd is on the scene, trying to hush things up. This of course puts Gil in place to rival Tom for Cecilia's affections. If fictive Tom reflects innocence in its purest form, Gil embodies...
Unfortunately such lighthearted charm is missing from the rest of Shepherd's part as the film melodramatically portrays Gil's breakdown after the bank forecloses on his loans. His seemingly over night metamorphosis from a conscientious father to a drunk who beats up his son is a sudden and unbelievable...