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...flick it with one hand, the kid who knew the lines to every Three Stooges movie ever made. And when the teacher would tell him to "quiet down," and accuse him of acting like a two-year-old, he would always come up with something like "I resemble that remark! (nook nook nook)" and the whole class would snicker...
...Smith of Del City, Okla. Last August, Smith offhandedly told a conservative political rally, "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." In the furor that predictably followed, Smith met with Jewish leaders and said he regretted hurting anyone's feelings, but never took back the remark...
Thus Campo was a controversial figure long before he rudely announced after the Wood Memorial in April that his colt would win the Kentucky Derby because the rest of the field was "a bunch of garbage." The remark was vintage Campo. He refuses to make his sentences parse or his opinions palatable. He also pre-empts criticism about his appearance (5 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) by proclaiming himself the Fat Man. Says one New York trainer: "He's got a huge chip on his shoulder, an inferiority complex that he defends by putting on a superiority complex...
Perhaps, this wide diversity of students and their interests and pursuits is the seed for their characterization as "the silent generation," a term habitually strung around the necks of college students during the 1950s, most often to remark on the sharp difference between their tranquility and the campus unrest of the 1960s and early 1970s. Members of the class of 1956 say that if they were silent, it was because they had "nothing to beef about"--there were no wars, almost no public threat after the close of the McCarthy hearings, and plenty to keep people busy at Harvard...
...standard show-biz tragedy, which Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo document in delicious detail. Today Elvis remains a thriving industry, like Disney; this film is both a comment on that industry and (through the authorization of Presley's mentor, Colonel Tom Parker) a part of it. The remark of the Hollywood cynic, upon hearing of Elvis' death-"Good career move"-was prophecy after...