Word: rascal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late Gene Fowler was a thinking man's John Wayne. In half a century behind the typewriter, he built a name as a swashbuckling reporter, a capable novelist, a prosperous Hollywood script doctor and a painstaking biographer of such romantic rascals as John Barrymore (Good Night, Sweet Prince) and Jimmy Walker (Beau James). In the course of his career he became something of a romantic rascal himself, a legendary prodigy in bar and bedroom alike...
...gameness of gamins. Settling into the day-to-day routine of a comfortable French provincial town, Truffaut introduces us, through loosely coordinated vignettes, to all the little grade school tykes and all their mischievous goings-on. This stuff could have become soupy, but Truffaut has retained a clever rascal's nose for stage-stealing devilry. (One example: the town detective's daughter refused to accompany her parents to a restaurant without a mangy toy elephant. But when they leave her at home, she pleads abuse to the neighbors, who fall for it and prepare her a special gourmet care package...
...sentinel on a tree on a far hill, crying his protest to intruders who entered his domain. Gone, mused my father, who had once carried me on his shoulders through these fields (now he needed my hand). Another friend swallowed by time, my father said. But the old rascal's progeny were all about, he laughed. They could claim the field mice and the unsuspecting young bull snakes. They would still soar on the thermals beneath those towering cumulus clouds and watch over this land as they had done for centuries...
...previous administration, the recall campaign has picked up support from many liberals, blacks and others who have long disliked Rizzo because of his disdain for civil liberties and his blatant use of patronage. Ten days ago former Mayor and U.S. Senator Joseph Clark blasted Rizzo as "a rascal, a liar, a man who is ignorant, arrogant and stupid...
...began when a three-year-old won an amateur contest in Philadelphia with his rendition of a song called I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You. Last week in Las Vegas, Sammy Davis Jr. celebrated his 50th birthday and 47th year in show business, and concluded that getting there was half the fun. "Sure," he admitted, "I get bored sometimes saying, 'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, here's a little song I have for you.' But it's good money in the bank, and show biz is the only life...