Word: guys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time Ed Sheehan crossed the finish line first for the Crimson in 27th place, the only spectator left was the old guy who sells re-washed golf balls on the ninth hole of the Van Cortland public golf course...
...mayor, urging voters not to vote for Vellucci for any of the spots on the City Council, sums up the mood best. "That's a personal thing with Al. There's no sense in making a big thing out of it. I wouldn't do that to a guy when he's down--that's not my type of business," he says. Needless to say, it is also not good politics--kicking a man when he is down has traditionally been one of the best ways to get kicked back on election day, and Sullivan and the others know...
Instead, says one CEA staffer, "the only guy making economic policy is Carter, for good or ill. He is reluctant to delegate authority and judges every issue on the merits of the case presented to him." And the President does tend to consider issues one by one. A senior Administration official asserts: "Although he's a very fast learner, he doesn't move easily from one concept to another. You can open one subject, and he'll quickly have it mastered. Then he'll master a second one. But he often doesn...
Quick now: Who wears $700 white suits, balloons on his head, an arrow through his skull, rabbit ears and a rubber nose and is forever afflicted by uncontrollably buck-and-winging "happy feet"? "Hey, we're havin' sommmme fuuun," he chortles. Pregnant pause. "Hey, this guy is really... crazy! By now, any halfway clued-in cultist should recognize silver-haired Steve Martin, 32, a Dadaesque philosopher turned goofball...
...such moments, Levanter resembles Guy Grand, the cartoon millionaire-sadist in Terry Southern's The Magic Christian-a similarity that does no credit to Kosinski. But Levanter is not content merely to engineer or observe acts of humiliation. He is also an avenging angel. At an Alpine ski resort he blows up the vacationing henchman who tortures the subjects of a Middle East potentate. He devises an excruciating end for a New York hotel clerk who betrays visiting Eastern European guests to their native apparatchiks. This deed over, Levanter privately gloats because authorities cannot discover a plot linking killer...