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...every winner's story is a happy one. Ken Proxmire was a tool grinder when, in 1977, he won $1 million on a 50? Michigan lottery ticket. After the winnings started coming in ($50,000 a year for 20 years), Proxmire moved to Fresno, Calif, where he eventually opened three sporting-goods stores specializing in pool tables. He did a brisk business until 1980, when interest rates took a sharp rise and luxury items like pool tables became less popular. His business failed and, $100,000 in debt, he filed for bankruptcy. During this financial crisis his wife left...
...fault of Lila Kaye, late of the Royal Shakespeare Company (she was Mrs. Squeers and Mrs. Crummies in Nich olas Nickleby). Kaye plays Mama with manic élan, but she is giving flesh - kilos of it - to an ethnic stereotype that should have gone out with the organ grinder and his monkey...
Well they can hold the meat grinder of life up to my face and push me through...
...word for the moral undercurrent of his work, as earnestly as possible. Hardly any Smith is more than ten feet high or wide. All the work responds willingly to nature. The stainless-steel planes of the Cubis, scribbled with stuttery, glittering lines by the rapid "drawing" of a power grinder, respond better to sunlight or starshine than to the static lighting of a museum. The high color and splashy textures with which he sometimes painted the steel were certainly meant to be seen against the colors of tree, snow or autumn grass...
...here I was in the grinder again. I knew what I had to face. You get into the machine and you're just a little cog. You're nothing major." An eerie falsetto fills the corridor. An inmate walks by outside the door to Sy's cell, shouting...