Word: pints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drain," Hull said recently, "there wouldn't be civil war, there would be armed rebellion, and it could spread to Britain itself. We're not ready now, but, like our forefathers, it won't be long before we are." He paused, took a pull on his pint of Guinness, and added: "Bloody awful to be talking like this...
Film Star Michael Caine's new movie Pulp, now being shot in Malta, is surfing the current wave of nostalgia with a re-creation of old Holly wood times. Pint-sized Mickey Rooney and gravel-larynxed Lionel Stander are playing a couple of gangsters, and four Maltese cats are masquerading as Mae West, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich. But what really catches the Zeitgeist of those crazy days is the bit where Rooney gets shot and Stander does a backward somersault into the pool to surface in the middle of a floating...
...Pint-sized (5 ft. ¼ in.) Tally Palmer has long been known as a fighter. As consular officer in Leopoldville during the turbulent months that followed Congolese independence in 1960, she showed up time and again to save U.S. officials and newsmen from Congolese mobs. One of the men she rescued was Frank Carlucci, then a Foreign Service officer, now the newly appointed associate director of the Office of Management and Budget. Carlucci's car had killed a Congolese and skidded into a ditch, and both Carlucci and a U.S. military aide might well have been lynched if Tally...
Getting On. That is a decided improvement over the days when, at the age of 13, he was blowing harmonica and singing for the Saturday night fish fries in Clarksdale, Miss. "I was making about 50? a night, a fish sandwich and half a pint of moonshine, and I was getting on," he recalls. Muddy was born McKinley Morganfield, 56 years ago. His mother died young, so his father sent him to be raised by his grandmother. "She used to say I'd sneak out and play in the mud when I was little, so she started calling...
...Brown also has a special feeling for the likes of his protagonist, who for all her conning ways is a pint-size frontier woman-tough, gritty, fiercely protective of her man. "Watching after a man is a hard, worrisome thing," she says, after opening Long Boy's eyes to a floozy's designs on his money. Most of the time on their travels, she and Long Boy share a room, but their relationship is almost puritanically free of any Nabokovian decadence. Addie's speech, however, is vulgar, pungent country talk, which adds greatly to the book...