Word: marvinism
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...ranch is very laid back, so first names are the style. Within hours everyone knows that Marvin the doctor flunked Smokenders and needs encouragement, Carol is going through a difficult divorce and needs to be taken care of, Jessie is nearly 70 and loves exercise classes. Another Carol, an inner-city emergency-room nurse from the Midwest, cannot trust herself with a handful of change near a candy machine. The couple from Park Avenue play backgammon at 7 in the morning; the amiable rotund man is a rock musician, and the lithe woman with him is his secretary, who considerately...
...News President William Small, 55, was forced to resign two weeks ago. Reporters at NBC's Washington bureau danced in the corridors when they heard the news, singing, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead." Someone ripped the name plates from the doors of NBC Correspondents Bernard and Marvin Kalb, who had followed longtime CBS News Executive Small to NBC in 1980. Meanwhile, at NBC headquarters in New York City, the news staff gleefully made up "an endangered species list" of CBS emigres expected to go in Small's wake...
...Wakefield, Tony Fuller and Roy Hamilton have graced the basketball court recently, but it wasn't always that way. A few years back, the Pistons were loaded with talent--the likes of Bob-A-Dob Lanier, M.L. Carr, Chris Ford, Eric Money, Kevin Porter, Ralph Simpson, John Shumate and Marvin "Bad News" Barnes. Even then the team went practically nowhere, getting eliminated from the early rounds of the NBA playoffs--a competition which any ordinary team can make...
Then this reformer, name of Marvin Zindler-a real pain in the hind cheeks-he started a crusade to close down the Chicken Ranch. And you know, he did. So the girls lit out for towns a little more hospitable to the good life-Austin Galveston, Tijuana. But that wasn't the end of the best little whorehouse in Texas. No sir. It was jes' the beginnin...
...some other Texas boys and girls took Larry's story and made it into a genuine Broadway show. They had singin' and jokin' and jes' enough carryin' on to keep the folks comm in and the vice squad out. They had bad ole Marvin Zindler high-steppin' through his favorite den of iniquity like a virgin bride navigatin' a field of cow chips. They had Sheriff T.J.-they called him Ed Earl-and Miss Edna-they ailed her Mona-lookin' longingly at each other from th' opposite sides of middle...