Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...geographical path has been as circuitous as his career. In New York City, driving a cab in between studies, he went onstage twice at Catch a Rising Star, an auditioning house for promising comics, only to be adjudged on the descent. In Los Angeles, ever the scholar at the University of Southern California, he went on The Gong Show, a sort of television Ship of Fools, and won second place with a trained plant act. (He put a fern through a hoop, shot a plant out of a cannon, sawed a plant in half. An old lady from Santa Monica...
...deepest need--one's spiritual hunger for glory." Schuller attempts to assuage this emotional hunger with a smorgasbord of rhyming slogans: "There's no gain without pain"; "It takes guts to leave the ruts." For Schuller, an acknowledgment of self-worth, more than a confession of sinfulness, is the path to God. Says he: "We can replace inferiority complexes with a new self-image, one with divine roots. God is my Father; I am somebody...
Down the hall, William Fitz-Gibbon, 50, whose degree in science is from M.I.T., uses an overhead projector to sketch a physics problem about the path of a falling projectile. As he extends the trajectory, 20 students jab at their calculators, shouting the coordinates of the projectile's path. One student looks up from time to time from an Agatha Christie mystery to call out answers. A young girl interrupts the instructor. He has been applying a shortcut formula to the problem, and she points out that his solution will not work in every case...
...court, Disney cultivates other pluses. Attorney Carl Hovland's experience with one case is typical. A woman and her son were taking Disneyland's Autopia car ride in 1975 when a 16-ft.-long branch from a eucalyptus tree fell in their path. They stopped their car, but others rammed them from behind. Hovland figured he could win on several points: a tree in rotten condition, a poorly designed roadway and cars without headrests. After a seven-week trial, the jury deliberated only 1 1/2 hours. Verdict...
...hard to imagine Ford's being convincing as a creep or a cretin or even an ordinary villain, and his career has followed the dutiful, almost square path one would expect from the characters he projects. When he saw that he was not receiving the kinds of parts he wanted back in the '60s, he did what the forthright, somewhat self-righteous John Book would have done. Rather than fritter away his talent as a bit actor on TV car-chase shows, he all but dropped out for seven years, turning down 90% of the jobs he was offered. With...