Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even his much-publicized arrogance had its engaging aspect. He dropped names so often that floors threatened to collapse under their collective weight, but always with a pixie-ish wink that undermined the gravity of his statements and reduced them almost to an acknowledged selfparody. He bandied about words like power, influence, hiring and firing, always with himself on the business end of the proposition, yet his flamboyant style seemed to belie the cold calculation of his rhetoric...
Married. William Zeckendorf, 67, former $25-a-week building manager who wheeled and dealed his way into control of one of the world's largest real-estate empires (Webb & Knapp, Inc.), then watched the bottom fall out in 1965; and Alice Bache, 60-ish, widow of Securities Magnate Harold (Bache & Co.); both for the third time; in Manhattan...
Moby got heated up over the sight of Petkevich: Petkevich was very insulted and protested. "Ish male. Call me Ish male." Heimert poured water on Moby's heated Websterian brow. The water splashed on the ice, and Petkevich complained that pouring water on the ice only made the ice colder. And it was too cool already. In the end, Heimert had such difficulty getting his overeager Moby Zamboni out of the rink that he had to back...
...incredibly accurate portrait of the campaign travails that any hopeful for the electoral big-time must go through. However, it is a film that lacks both heart and an intellectual center of gravity. Written and produced by what must be serious, talented people, it comes off dilettante-ish...
...there are none), but from the droppings of Crumb's bathroom wit that Bakshi slaps into his narrative. (A Ph.d. candidate will someday call Fritz 'picaresque'). Fritz's black-talking, muscle flexing crow friends are the natural men of his world, though Fritz himself is far from psychotically WASP-ish. All the traditional Americans--pig cops and hardhats and a hound dirt-farmer--are sweating ignoramuses so whacked-out by work that they can't ever get it together. Radical politicos and Hell's Angels join paws in the headiest mix since PCPJ; even Orthodox Jews are ribbed mercilessly...