Word: ragamuffins
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Working with these fragments of folklore and history, Swedish Film Maker Bo Widerberg has fashioned them into a touching tribute but an only intermittently successful film. 70e Hill works best in its early, New York City episodes. Joe falls in with an immigrant ragamuffin nicknamed "The Fox"-an Italian version of the Artful Dodger -who gives his friend harsh glimpses of life in the New World, where it is often necessary to steal food just to stay alive. Joe also meets a soft-eyed refugee named Lucia. They huddle together on the fire escape of the Metropolitan Opera, listening...
When he came from nowhere to win the Kentucky Derby, the experts sneered over their mint juleps and dismissed him as a fluke. At the Preakness, the horse they called a "ragamuffin" had the same experts choking on their clam cakes as he sped home the winner. Then the wisecracks turned to wonderment. Could he do it? Could this rank unknown, this invader from Venezuela-Venezuela?-make off with the most coveted honor in U.S. horse racing, the Triple Crown? Last week a record crowd of 81,036 came to find out, as the big (16.1 hands) copper colt went...
...become increasingly stiff. Citation, for example, was one of 5,819 thoroughbreds foaled in 1945; Cañonero was one of 22,911 born in 1968-and a most unimpressive one at that. Indeed it is not so much the rarity of a Triple Crown contender but the ragamuffin-to-riches rise that has made Cañonero, as his trainer Juan Arias says, the "champion of the people...
...make sure, the Burtons are playing as bawdy a Bard as they can conceive. In the single entendre wedding scene, for example, Burton gobbles up Communion bread like a starving ragamuffin, cuffs the astonished priest, and fumbles grossly through his filthy clothes till at last he finds the wedding ring in his codpiece...
...Today I gave a speech to the assembled population. I held up the start for 15 minutes insisting that the women come too, but in the end only a dozen showed up. Afterwards I made the tour of the village with the local sanitation committee, a collection of ragamuffin types. Tonight I did my dish-washing act before a small group of women. Afterwards they asked questions about household work, and the caring for kids. I didn't know the answers but I faked...