Word: longshoreman
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...started noodling around on the piano when he was five, picking out notes when he accompanied his mother and father to church. It was these little improvs that led his parents to buy a piano. Roberts' mother was a gospel singer, his father a longshoreman, and it was no easy thing to come by money. At first young Marcus taught himself, and after a year he was good enough to play in church. He played with one hand or the other, but still hadn't figured out how to make both work together. "Horrible hand position," he remembers. At twelve...
...faint shadow of stain spreading over the sound. Flags in nearby fishing villages are flying at half-staff. And some fishermen are wearing black armbands and crying openly, an unusual display of emotion for men who pride themselves on their toughness and independence. Laments Cliff Davidson, a longshoreman and member of the state legislature: "It's all like a wake now. How many more things are going to die? How many more livelihoods...
...film veteran, let alone a neophyte director making his first major motion picture. But the white- haired auteur remains focused and remarkably relaxed. Clad in a bulky parka to ward off the oceanside chill, he comes off like a cross between a Roman senator and a retired longshoreman as he hobnobs with the crew, rehearses the cast and then stands back to watch the action, his eyes twinkling. Between takes, Mailer crosses the street to another pub and peers in at noisy real- life revelers. "Look at this," he roars with proprietary delight. "That's classic Provincetown...
...lives today with his wife, a school teacher, and two children. Army service, 1965 to 1968. Flight school on the G.I. Bill. Joined the San Antonio police department and stayed four years. Missed home. "It's mostly the people here. It's more relaxed." Took a job as a longshoreman on the dock at Lake Charles. Then the work, much of it loading rice, went slack. Cretini switched to shrimping. So did scores of other unemployed Louisianans. At last look, the Lake Charles' unemployment rate was 14.8%, more than double the national average. A local official estimates that there...
...have "the manhood" to apologize. Bush, who merits consideration for the Ernest Hemingway Moveable Feast Invidious Braggadocio Trophy this year, replied, "I'll lay my record on any forum, whatever it is, on the manhood, up against his." After his debate with Geraldine Ferraro, Bush told a longshoreman, "Yeah, we tried to kick a little ass last night." That was rather cross-grained machismo, since it is not really the code of the locker room to brag about kicking a woman around...