Word: goldstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argue the point too convincingly. In four rounds (the seventh through tenth) plus one minute and 31 seconds of a fifth, the Brockton strong boy practically punched La Starza's face off, La Starza, having been exposed to a college education, realized the wisdom of permitting referee Ruby Goldstein to step in at that point and call it quits...
Robert H. Goldstein--Dudley House Committee; House Dance Committee; Student Council Special Committee on Dudley; Social Relations Society, Executive Board, Treasurer; Harvard Advocate; Combined Charities Drive, Assistant House Captain; House Soccer, Squash...
...pressure-cooker ring, the heat (104°) took its toll. For the first time in a championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration. Robinson, in one of his peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery...
Play the Strength. Some of the Goldstein rules for making "Hershey Bar" pictures-i.e., movies that sell lots of candy and popcorn too: 1) never make a war picture unless it is a comedy (e.g., (Up Front and its sequel, Willie and Joe Back at the Front); 2) play the strength -if fantasy pictures are making money, turn out fantasy pictures until moviegoers are tired of them; 3) avoid "downbeat" pictures-nobody ever bought tickets to watch inmates of a mental institution; 4) adults are grown-up children, and should be entertained as such...
...audience," Goldstein says, "has to feel superior. Like in a quiz show, if the audience knows the answer and the guy misses it, they feel good. So your comic has to be somebody not as smart as the guy watching it. You can't laugh at somebody who's smarter than you. Hollywood wouldn't believe it, but every so often you see a Ma & Pa Kettle coming out of a theater, laughing at themselves...