Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Richard W. ("Rube") Marquard, 90, Hall of Fame pitcher for the old New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, whose string of 19 victories in a row at the start of the 1912 season remains a record; of cancer; in Baltimore...
...usual the Administration did not help its cause by a confused approach to the issue. "The program is rather Rube Goldbergian," concedes an administrative energy adviser. Because of the bewildering intricacy of energy regulations, there is no guarantee that the fee will apply only to gasoline. Oil companies might be able to increase the price of other petroleum products, like home heating oil, thus giving a nervous Congress further cause for election-year jitters. While the Administration claims the fee would save 100,000 bbl. of oil per day, skeptical industry analysts say the reduction would be closer...
...what it means to play in the Beanpot. He'll grope for words, maybe mumble something about "pride" or "electricity in the air." Then, a pause. As a kid, he played street hockey every day in sub-freezing weather, using the curbs for boards and garbage cans or a Rube Goldberg wooden contraption for a net; made his parents wake up at four in the morning to shuttle him to some dingy arena when ice time is cheaper and the Pee Wee team can practice; stared transfixed as Bobby Orr led the Bruins to glory...
...virtuous cosmetologist (Bernadette Peters), who plays cornet solos to express her love. He makes and loses a great pile of money, and eventually is rescued from drunken bumdom by his black parents, who are now rich from the money he has been sending home. The rube role works fairly well when Martin remembers to play a harmless nitwit of the Jerry Lewis variety. But that really is not his kind of humor. During most of this film he is way out of character (so is his rough language). He does not impersonate a rube or a lovable nitwit; his twitchy...