Word: jockey
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...know we'll treat you nice." Beyond that, the plot is as thin as a dime tip. Like many recent musicals-Sophisticated Ladies, for example-Pump Boys is a night of songs, 20 in all. Most have been written by Jim Warm, who also plays the chief gas jockey. If none are memorable, all are worth listening to, from a sultry Be Good or Be Gone, sung by Rhetta (Cass Morgan), to a very funny The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine, sung by Mark Hardwick...
...prosecutor, that Nixon would allow John Stennis, a prestigious Senator, to verify the accuracy of proposed White House summaries of the disputed tapes. By coincidence I had a lunch scheduled that day with Richardson. He told me he had the uneasy feeling that the White House was trying to jockey Cox into a position where it could fire him. That Richardson would not accept...
Gerald Gutierrez's adroit direction prevents the basic plot-line of a jockey's love for an heiress from ever dragging. He adds dimensions to the characters, allowing them to transcend their early 1900s conventions. Goldie Gates, the madcap heiress from San Francisco (Maureen Brennan), trails her love, Johnny Jones (Donny Osmond), across a continent and an ocean, not out of subservience, but from a need to fulfill her own desires. She appears to us as assertive intelligent, and independent...
...what he is doing." New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey contended that the New Federalism is really "a new feudalism," which will pit states against each other and cities against their state capitals as all struggle anew for a fair share of dwindling federal funds or jockey to protect their own economic interests. In the same vein, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown of California warned that the 50 states might become "competing colonies." West Virginia's Democratic Governor Jay Rockefeller charged that Reagan was "dumping onto the states what he doesn't want to face...
When, early in The Border, Jack Nicholson muses about how, back in California, "I liked feeding those ducks," one's first reaction is: "Feeding them what? Strychnine?" Nicholson's voice, with the silky menace of an FM disc jockey in the eighth circle of hell, has always suggested that nothing in the catalogue of experience is outrageous enough to change his inflection. Even when he goes shambly and manic (Goin' South, The Shining), Nicholson's voice and those tilde eyebrows give the impression that he knows more than his character, more than anyone need know...