Word: kovic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Basil Stewart, an unemployed 25-year-old father of three, drove two hours from Brooklyn to Greenwich to spend $175--mostly crumpled up fives and 10s--on Powerball tickets. Could he afford it? "No comment," Stewart replied. More disturbing still was the fact that 28-year-old waiter Ernie Kovic, was also on a Greenwich lottery line, funneling all the money he had been saving for college--$3,000--into Powerball tickets...
...portrayal of the bad boy, hyperactive, cocky character. He was also awakened by the exposure to a real life story, very different from the utterly fictitious "Legend" and "Rainman'" he said. No air guitar, no happy-go-lucky guy, no lucky streak, no love story. His experience as Ron Kovic in the powerful Vietnam epic influenced Cruise to adopt one of many lifelong political causes, support for Vietnam veterans...
Time for an orderly transition of power, right? Wrong. Time for a cover-up. Time for Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline), a presidential look-alike, to step into President Bill Mitchell's not exactly unfillable shoes. Dave is the owner of a soft- (not to say bleeding-) hearted employment agency whose uncanny resemblance to The Man has led to a nice little sideline, impersonating him first at the openings of car dealerships and other lowball promotional fests, then, at the Secret Service's behest, at a real presidential function...
...Kovic, the Vietnam vet whose life was portrayed in the movie Born on The Fourth of July picked up 36 votes while wheeling around on the fringe in New Hampshire. And former Senator Eugene McCarthy, who knocked Lyndon Johnson out of the race with his strong New Hampshire showing in 1968, picked up a mere 211 votes and scant attention this time around...
...demands from the anti-war movement is a cult of the Vietnam War which has fermented since 1975 in movies, personal histories and popular music. Any American foreign policy adventure--however justified--calls up the specter of Vietnam. The U.S. seems too fed up with the memories of Ron Kovic and My Lai to get involved...