Word: picker
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...film, made for Western audiences and in a Western style, may be in Hindi (with subtitles), but it is not intended for those familiar with the scene it describes. And while the rag picker chosen to play the main character gives an outstanding and natural performance, one nonetheless suspects the choice was made for reasons of pathos, not talent...
...hardly believeable that the Review was simply offering fair and legitimate criticism. Although Baldwin denied any malicious intent in the Review's attack, he allowed such flattering statements to be printed about the professor as "he looks like a junkie," "he isn't qualified to be a migrant fruit picker," and "if professors had to take English 5, Bill Cole would be out on the street...
...take Sam Hailey, by acclamation the champion can picker in Palm Beach County, Fla. In twelve years he has collected 944,000 cans and sold them for $10,000. Lately he has reined himself in; at 91 he no longer needs as much exercise as a doctor recommended in 1975 for treatment of a heart ailment...
Loners trolling for cans in New York City doubtless include some of the city's 50,000 or so homeless. But they are not always downtrodden. Can Picker John-Ed Croft, 50, abandoned a career as a computer program analyst to take up life as a painter. Croft has been accumulating cans, he says, to pay $11,486.72 he owes the Internal Revenue Service in back taxes. He insists that he plans to deliver his entire can stash to the district IRS office in lower Manhattan. IRS Spokesman Neil O'Keeffe says, "There's no provision for paying taxes with...
...think it took a nit-picker to bring this up," said Danehy...