Word: hoppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pushes him into his pool, sees him assassinated in Los Angeles. Paul, singlehanded, is made to exaggerate all the faults imputed to the Kennedy men. His war heroics are accidental as he flees from the enemy; he helps steal a test in law school; he becomes a compulsive bed hopper, driving one girlfriend to suicide and leaving her daughter, a campaign aide, to die in a hotel fire. Paul is a Senator running for President when fate catches up with...
...speared a line drive headed for deep left to save at least two runs and retire the side in the third. And in the top of the fourth, with the bases loaded, one out, and three runs already across, shortstop Marlene Schools went to her left for a one-hopper, and gunned it to second baseman Alissa Friedman--who relayed to first just in time to complete a twin-killing, and uncommon play in softball...
...passengers holding Braniff tickets panicked and traded them in at ticket offices for seats on BranifFs archrival, American Airlines. Last week allegations were made to the Civil Aeronautics Board by unspecified airline-industry insiders that American let the Braniff tickets accumulate, then abruptly dumped them into the clearinghouse hopper in a "dirty tricks" campaign designed to create a Braniff cash crunch and hasten the airline's demise. Though American Airlines dismissed the charge as "absolutely ridiculous," the CAB is looking into the matter anyway...
...named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side; he was an affable table hopper in his mid-30s with a reputation for shady connections. Just before his death, Tupper had also become known as Melanie Cain's new boyfriend. Buddy Jacobson, so the theory went at the time, had put a stop to that...
Lavishly choreographed by Danny Daniels, and at times hilarious, these forays into the protagonists' fantasy lives provide a welcome respite from the general gloom. As director Herbert Ross leads us relentlessly from one depression cliche to another--the deserted prairie highway, the Edward Hopper diner, the seedy hotel room complete with flashing neon sign outside the window and the El rumbling past--the song and dance numbers become an escape, not only for Arthur and Eileen, but for the audience as well. And there's a lot to escape in Pennies from Heaven. For Arthur and Eileen, sexual exploitation, grim...