Word: lugged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opel today gives visitors and colleagues a sense of self-containment, but he admits to having had a wicked temper. Once when he could not get a flat tire off his Chrysler because he was turning a lug the wrong way, he became so enraged that he bashed in the side of the car. "I don't get angry the way I used to," Opel says. But the old intensity, just barely noticeable beneath the perfect manners, can still be useful. "People know that I mean what I say and that I don't suffer fools," he says...
...prime moving purpose of the assembly of these works," he says, "is not to make a contribution to scholarship. We have tried to make a distillation, to save the public exhaustion. How many late Roman family portrait busts do most people want to see?" Fair enough, but to lug (for instance) tons of Egyptian sculpture from the Vatican to the Met, whose own Egyptian collection is one of the wonders of museology, is not distillation but excess. The Met insists that the sole aim of the show is aesthetic pleasure for a wide public. "Is the ultimate purpose...
Together they went West, but Hollywood was not welcoming either. Irwin Winkler, who along with Robert Chartoff has produced all the Rocky films, remembers his first impression: "In comes this big lug who weighed 220 Ibs., didn't talk well and acted slightly punch-drunk. He said he had an idea for a boxing film. He wanted to star...
...some smiling San Carlos women and children, shown leaning on a fence. When Ashbridge's wife Mandy saw the picture at her home in Tidworth, Hampshire, she remarked, "He never says no to a nice cuppa. "Tractors and Land Rovers have been offered freely to the troops to lug equipment to nearby hills. An 18-year-old boy used his father's tractor to haul gear from the shore. Another boy told the soldiers, "If you want to borrow my Suzuki, go right ahead...
...good day, Isaac Kattan Kassin deposited as much as $1 million. The money would be delivered almost every morning to three or four different banks in the Miami area. The convicted drug dealer's teams of Hispanic helpers, often aided by bank guards, would lug cardboard boxes and suitcases stuffed with cash to the tellers' windows. That simple method of handling his share of the $12 billion or so in "nar-cobucks" that flood Florida each year used to be the norm-until he and others like him began running afoul of Operation Greenback, the federally coordinated effort...