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...exegete, Art Critic Carter Ratcliff, points out, "It is as a practitioner of a dramatic, restless, 'tropical' version of the sublime that Ferrer can best be understood." The work is hot salsa too, theatrical and loose. In his way, Rafi-as his buddies call him -is the ham his elder brother, Actor Jose Ferrer, chose not to become...
Hill's whirlwind shooting spree began when he lofted in a 15-footer to cut Penn's lead to 14-7. Irion then ham-and-egged with an arching hook to make it 14-9 with 11:00 showing in the half...
...last day in Plains, Carter rose at 6:30 a.m. and gazed upon the dusting of snow and ice on the pine trees-the first in his octogenarian Uncle Alton's memory. While Rosalynn scrambled eggs and cheese, Jimmy fried the breakfast ham. Shortly before noon, he shut off the water and electricity, turned down the thermostat, and left the house in the care of a maid and the Secret Service. At the train depot, the Carters waved goodbye to the 18-car Peanut Special...
Clapton has digested so many musical influences that he's dulled his palate. Invesitably the result is bland, a sort of baby pea-and-ham mush of originally solid substance. It's hard to distinguish Clapton's puree from Brand X any more and his appealnow lies chiefly in the hints at the original taste of the musical base than today's too-well-blended pulp. Not any reason to cry--that's too strong a reaction...
...like champion (Carl Weathers) blows into town for a championship bout and must find a replacement for the suddenly injured contender. Rocky asks the audience to believe that the champ reaches down past all the ranked boxers and all the up-and-coming kids to give this stale ham-and-egger a chance in an engagement on which millions are riding. It is not merely improbable in a time when even a legitimate challenger like Ken Norton, who is a movie star to boot, does badly on closed-circuit TV, it is preposterous. One really cannot deal with such...