Word: irishman
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...Irishman's task is not small, Harvard has not been over .500 for five years. But then again, Harvard fans can whoop it up. And they should be there early, because the Eagles will certainly fly over today...
Notre Dame and Penn State were among the suitors, and Paul recalls the trip to Duke where "it was like everything you hear about recruiting. You know, a hotel room, the offer of a girl for the weekend." But then the good looking irishman blushed and in the process reaffirmed his All-Americanism--"I turned her down...
Curiously, in a country where other people pay high income taxes (as much as 50% in the $20,000 range), the privileged status of artists and writers has not raised much criticism, a fact that British Thriller Writer Peter Driscoll (The Wilby Conspiracy) attributes to the Irishman's traditional admiration for flimflam...
...Sughrue, an attorney from Whitinsville, Mass., and eight business partners to turn the family estate in Newport, R.I., into a Kennedy museum. After all, the greatest days at Hammersmith Farm were when the Honey Fitz tied up at the dock or the presidential helicopter settled on the lawns. An Irishman who cast his first vote ever for J.F.K., Sughrue plans to open the house to tourists next spring and charge admission. Visitors will see Hammersmith just as it was furnished at the time of the 1953 Bouvier-Kennedy wedding and glimpse the desk where a vacationing President signed several bills...
...Sleep. Let's get this straight: it's the nymphomaniac younger sister, played in this film version by Martha Vickers, who finally turns out to have murdered the missing Irishman and to have set off this story's complex web of blackmail and murder. That's the answer to the question, asked whenever this film is brought up, of who comes out as the culprit in the end. At least that's the answer in the book; whether it actually carried over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner...