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...have other writers, McMillan traces Ray's itinerant and difficult upbringing: eldest of nine children; father sometimes fixing and trading junk cars, hauling with a pickup truck, dishwashing, more frequently out of work, then abandoning the family; mother turning to alcohol; two brothers often in prison or reform school; one uncle a convict; life, with no privacy, in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., and in a grandmother's house in Alton, Ill.; postwar service as an Army MP in Nurnberg, Germany; a discharge for a "lack of adaptability" to military service...
...with the mood of the country. Last week at a Minneapolis luncheon for retired federal employees, the Senator pounded away at his theme. "Any politician who tells you we need less government is lying," he told them. "More efficient government, more responsive government, yes. But let's not junk everything we've built. That's cheap talk...
...Asian actors. They were waiting tables, being stenographers and working in advertising agencies. I found most of them in San Francisco and Los Angeles because that's where they get movie work playing Hirohito and coolies and acting in Kung-Fu movies, Hawaii Five-O and all that junk...
...father (Len Birman) and his grandfather (Yossi Yadin). The former is a hustler, determined to abandon traditional Jewish ways and invent his way upward (creaseless pants, expandable cuff links−so you can roll up your sleeves without unlinking them). The latter is a sweet-spirited, loving junk dealer, who is equally determined to imbue David with the belief that an Orthodox faith can still serve successfully as a guide to existence...
Springsteen was a demon player and won frequently, according to Southside, because "he had no scruples." Nicknamed "the Gut Bomb King" because of his passion for junk food, he would show up for a Monopoly tourney with armfuls of Pepsis and Drake's cakes. Whenever anyone would get hungry and ask for a snack, Springsteen was ready with a deal: one Pepsi, one hotel...