Word: mister
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was ample chance to do so throughout the afternoon. In his opening remarks, Vorenberg called the occasion "an opportunity for those of us who knew Justice Frankfurter, Professor Frankfurter, Mister, one-L, two-L, three-L Frankfurter, to celebrate." Vorenberg clerked for Frankfurter...
That role was always on his list of personal favorites, along with Mister Roberts, of course, the thoughtful juror in 12 Angry Men and the troubled cowpoke who fails to stop a lynching in The Ox-Bow Incident. All were projections of a humane, decent and liberal-minded man trying to do the right thing in a world that often thought wrong and behaved worse. But there was another side to him. He said once that although he did not consider himself neurotic, "you become an actor maybe because there are these complexes about you that aren't average...
...played 'poor man's polo,' " says Stallone. "A good pony cost $15,000; ours cost $200. Sometimes they asked us not to play." After his parents' divorce, Stallone "did time" in a number of schools. Taunted by classmates for his looks ("I was a Mister Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place") and even more unusual name, he began lifting weights...
...Henry Fonda, who is suffering from a severe heart ailment, On Golden Pond was the next best thing to a cure. Despite having given some of Holly wood's finest performances of the past 50 years - in such films as The Grapes of Wrath, Twelve Angry Men, and Mister Roberts- Fonda had never won an Oscar...
...arms buildup, the company announced that it had delivered not one but two potent new neclear-powered warships to the U.S. Navy in a single day: the 93,000-ton aircraft carrier Carl Vinson and the 6,900-ton attack submarine Atlanta. Proclaimed the ads' headline: MISTER PRESIDENT, WE HAVE BEGUN...