Word: leprechaun
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Goes to Dinner and regular contributions to CBS's 60 Minutes, the leprechaun with the deadpan delivery has regaled audiences with the details of his middle-class conformity. His collected TV essays, the bestselling A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, disclosed his suspicions about designer underwear, his shock that no Mrs. Smith exists at Mrs. Smith's Pies, and his habit of saving warranties for appliances long since discarded. What accounts for the popularity of such ordinary views? Rooney thinks it is his compliance: "Rebels are a dime a dozen," he writes...
Anyone's mind, that is, except that of the Harvard hockey leprechaun and a goaltender by the name of Wade...
...sours into fatal righteousness; from Debbie Allen as Walker's doomed love; from Ted Ross and Moses Gunn as two eloquent veterans of injustice who try talking sense and restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems out of tune and time. She plays Evelyn Nesbit as the daffily dumb prototype for every bombshell from Marilyn to Bo-cheeks puffed, eyes glazed, tripping through life in a sweet stupor. She weighs...
...most important thing about that race was that she met Pappy. Coach Pappy Hunt and his leprechaun's twinkle and heavy Boston brogue got Rogers back on the track, the Harvard indoor track. "Pappy turned it all around for me. He paid attention to me, even though he knew nothing about me--my running backround wasn't exactly illustrious," Rogers says...
Energy companies guard their petroleum intelligence as carefully as a leprechaun protecting his pot of gold, but they admit that the most promising areas seem to include...