Word: livings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, that may not be so easy. You're entering a special place in our society. People will be awed by your expertise. You'll be placed in a position of privilege. You'll live well, people will defer to you, call you by your title, and it may be hard to remember that the word doctor is not actually your first name...
...also gain protection from their monstrous numbers-as many as 1.5 million per acre. Finally, since they appear only once every 13 or 17 years, nature may have endowed them with an unlikely mathematical defense. These are prime numbers, divisible only by themselves, and so parasites would have to live at least as long-a half or a quarter would be improbable-to partake in a 17-year feast...
Kaufman is at his best and most challenging when he does not let anyone in on the joke, doesn't even admit there's a joke at all. The playroom innocence of Kaufman's live show is a touch indulgent, almost always inspired. Sometimes at the beginning, a pretty girl comes out with an invitation to milk and cookies, a promise made good at show's end, when the entire audience is conveyed by bus to a snack with the star. But it is in Tony Clifton, with his crass, abusive desperation, that Kaufman may have...
...mined, and no one else is permitted to explode emotionally either. The result is a film without drive, lilt or vision. Portrait is an academic reading of a classic, faithful in its way to the overall structure of the original, but entirely lacking in the spirit that makes it live...
...first to fail is Luckett. At Ohio University he finds himself unable to live up to the oversized Bridgeport reputation. "He was the fast gun in town," writes Jordan, "grown tired of proving himself, trying to sustain his image by bluster instead of performance." Drafted by the Detroit Pistons after a round of mishandled negotiations, the disillusioned Luckett boots his chance and gets cut from the team. Oleynick stars at Seattle University, then slides into angry oblivion after a season with the SuperSonics. McLeod, the only one of the three to finish college, is robbed of his chance at glory...