Word: hotfooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles police release Cathy Smith, who was subsequently indicted for murder and for "furnishing and administering" speedballs (potent mixtures of cocaine and heroin) during the final days of Belushi's life? Portrayed by Woodward as a user and sometime dealer of heroin, Smith was able to hotfoot it to Canada, where she is still fighting extradition. Woodward is so absorbed in writing about Belushi's demons that he has barely a moment to suggest where they might have originated. Evoking an Albanian father who ran a couple of restaurants in Chicago and was never around for holidays "because...
...quite. Horowitz runs a lively, sometimes hectoring weekly half hour of consumer advocacy out of Los Angeles' KNBC, which is syndicated to 36 stations and takes a special delight in giving TV commercials the hotfoot. There are other raisers of consumer consciousness who are just as solid-NBC's Betty Furness, or 20/20's John Stossel-but none can quite match Horowitz's zealous show-biz savvy. Looking a little like the recording secretary of the Beverly Hills Jaycees, Horowitz gets cozy with his studio audience. He answers their questions; he invites them up at show...
...there was Serge Mihaly, who combined with Leone to hotfoot the Harvard quarterbacks all afternoon, slithering past the blockers and crashing into the Crimson backfield to pester whoever was throwing the ball (Harvard passed out of the quarterback-in-motion formation all afternoon, back-up Don Allard launching 23 passes to starter Cuccia's seven...