Word: lifers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funny lady who actually does ask him to sleuth down her cat. The woman, Margo Sperling, is played by Lily Tomlin. Her character comes straight out of a stock bit she does on television specials and in night-clubs: the astrology nut, pseudo-psychoanalyst and perpetual high-on-lifer all rolled into one. When Welles flashes a rod for the first time in her presence, she cheerfully informs him that "my shrink says that people who play with guns are usually impotent...
...board that he is dying, and for 500 pages First Mercantile's two highest-ranking vice presidents have at it for the top spot. One of the rivers, Alex Vandervoort, a Harvard-educated nonconformist, is the good guy, and the other, Roscoe Heyward, a neurotic First Mercantile lifer, is the bad guy. Up until about page 275 Roscoe appears to have it sewed up, but then the tide begins to turn and by the end he has botched things so badly that he is forced to jump off the Headquarters Tower and leave Alex in triumphant, if dignified control...
...LIFE EXPLOSION. Somewhere in this period comes the first emotional awareness that death will come and time is running out. The researchers see this stage as an unstable, explosive time resembling a second adolescence. All values are open to question, and the mid-lifer wonders, is there time to change? The mentor acquired in the mid-20s is cast aside, and the emphasis is on what Levinson calls BOOM-becoming one's own man. Parents are blamed for unresolved personality problems. There is "one last chance to make it big" in one's career. Does all this...
...before, Harris, 31, had been given the death penalty for murdering a prison guard during a 1974 riot at Alabama's horrendously overcrowded Atmore prison farm. The jury had not bought Defense Attorney Dees' argument that Harris was singled out because under Alabama law, a lifer who commits first-degree murder must be sentenced to death. Harris was the only lifer involved in the riot. The scribbling that Dees did during his frighteningly industrious drive back from the trial was an outline for Harris' appeal. It will argue that the verdict went against the weight...
...hear Mosiello working away at an IBM Selectric in his book-packed 5-ft. by 7-ft. cell. Like any other ambitious executive, he hopes his overtime labors are a signal to his superiors that he is ready for upward, to say nothing of outward mobility. Says the mustached lifer: "I didn't find a home when I came to prison. I want to unusual myself right out of this place...