Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eddie Coyle and "friends" is a passionless and dead-end one, as stony faced as the sentencing they suffer. The stolen goods they traffic and the robberies they commit, help support their families, with perhaps even enough leftover for that "trip to Florida." But they never make enough to quit the game. Jail, finally, is the only real stake. The game breeds a grim desperation. "Life's hard, but it's harder when you're stupid," says gunseller Jackie Brown. Not being stupid means making the best deal...
...case, his own interviews and not extensive newspaper research, and his own speculations and impressions do not carry that magic proportion of the book with which he can rest easy--he does not seem responsible for a majority of his material. He never met her. He doesn't even quite have hold of the metaphors in the book. He imagines Marilyn as a Napoleon of publicity who meets her end on a Fifth Helena Brentwood. As a starlet who made it seem easy as "ice cream." As a protean personality of opposites, sentimentality and Grand Bitchiness, soft as lamb...
...regular speechmaker for the Republican National Committee, crossing the country delivering hundreds of campaign addresses in behalf of Alf Landon in 1936 and Wendell Willkie in 1940. During the '40s, he served for a time as counsel to a congressional investigation of the Federal Communications Commission but quit after charging that White House pressure on Democratic Congressmen was turning the investigation into a charade...
...never seen a place I would rather live. I can be home in 20 minutes and feed deer, ducks and geese in my yard." Indeed, one personnel problem in the large corporations is that executives transferred to Minnesota are so reluctant to leave that they would often rather quit and find other work there than accept a retransfer. Steve Scarborough, a young Honeywell engineer who turned down a promotion two years ago because it would have meant moving to Florida, says flatly: "Many places are nice, but none is better than Minnesota...
...That was the last I really saw of him. As it turned out Walker barely passed, but he did manage to get into that teacher's college. And there he did play a little football, but at Thanksgiving of my college freshman year, I heard he had quit to take a part-time job. It was hard for me to visualize Walker not playing ball, and I wasn't surprised when a few months later, I heard he had dropped out of school to work full-time...