Word: journeyman
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...army, using a multitude of weapons to rampage through dozens of men at a time. At one point he rides down the banister of Capone's hotel firing off rounds from both hands. While it would be a stretch to see Tom Hanks' somber, journeyman character pulling off such a stunt, the comix version has a more exaggerated tone appropriate to its milieu. The movie and book take from the tropes of their respective mediums. Where cinematographer Conrad L. Hall evokes the dark tones of "The Godfather," English illustrator Richard Rayner's black and white drawings come right...
...most remarkable murder was perpetrated in the following manner, by a journeyman barber…who had been for a long time jealous of his wife. A young gentleman by chance coming into his master’s shop to be shaved…mentioned his having seen a fine girl home to Hamilton street, from whom he had certain favours the night before…the barber, concluding it to be his wife, in the height of his frenzy cut the gentleman’s throat from ear to ear and absconded...
...early Christmas. While Bush was heaving a floater over for a strike, fans were still lined up outside, impatiently waiting to get through an army of cops and metal detectors and into the ballparks. The South Bronx was never more secure. No so the D-Backs, who threw journeyman pitcher Brian Anderson, who seemed like the red meat the Yankees had been craving. But they could only eke out a 2-1 win, riding the arms of their ace Roger Clemens and their late-inning lock, closer Mariano Rivera...
...American slugger named Karl ("Tuffy") Rhodes may just save the day. The journeyman left-handed hitter with cornrows in his hair and humility in his voice has been lighting up the scoreboard in recent weeks with prodigious home runs. Through Saturday, with three weeks left in the regular season, Rhodes was just three home runs shy of tying the single-season record of 55 set by the legendary Sadaharu Oh in 1964. Japan isn't sure it wants an American to break the mark, but Rhodes seems pumped. "If I get four more in the next 10 games...
...mistake, the man was acting. Unlike his braying, spluttering character, O'Connor was born in the Bronx but his real voice was no Bronx cheer; he was soft-spoken and thoughtful and said that he never heard Archie Bunkerisms growing up in his well-off childhood home. An accomplished journeyman stage and film actor, O'Connor made Archie into a character - dry and operatic, hateful and touching - where a cartoon would have sufficed. It would have been easy to make Archie a caricature (and he was one) or a straw man (he was that too). It would have been easy...