Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high rollers in the Great Entertainment Sweepstakes, well versed in the arts of spin-off and tie-in, have created a devious form of autobiography: they hitch their histories to their hits. The follow-ups are often more compelling than the blockbusters. The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions, for example, revealed a talented and sensitive Mario Puzo far more than it explored his Mafia megaseller. Texas Writer and Journalist Larry L. King extends this technique in his seventh and best book. At street level, he hilariously and venomously chronicles The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas-from 1974 Playboy magazine piece...
Exams started half an hour late that morning, but normally the routine of preparing and delivering tests runs without a hitch Professors can opt to print up their tests and bring them to the exam room themselves, but about half the Faculty--especially instructors in large courses--chooses to let the registrar's office do the work, setting in motion an elaborate process that is cloaked in secrecy...
...house. The Browns have farmed these 175 acres for almost 70 years. His daughter Theresa, 19, and son Willis, 20, are the fourth generation of Browns on the place. "Mud season's not so bad as it used to be," says Brown. "We used to have to hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw out the milk in cans to the nearest hard road to be collected. That would go on for six weeks every year. Roads got better once they had to get the buses through to these consolidated schools. And the bulk truck comes every...
...Jack" period of the early '60s, Nicklaus had the bad form to beat Arnold Palmer against everyone's wishes. With a hitch and a slouch and a natural grace, Palmer had lifted the country-club game onto his square shoulders, carried it to the people and made it a sport. Palmer looked like an athlete: a prizefighter, a middleweight. Nicklaus looked like a golfer, which was to say, like an unmade...
...century style, many for the local theater. He took me backstage with him. I was fascinated." Giorgio's parents diverted him from dreams of the lively arts and into medical school, which he endured for three years before surrendering to the inevitable military service and a three-year hitch as a medical assistant. Back in civvies in 1954, he took a job, "almost by accident," with La Rinascente, one of Italy's largest department-store chains. He helped put together a series of ambitious window displays "showing quality products from countries the ordinary Italian couldn't visit...