Word: runts
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...Moore realize that he had another problem. "I felt very humiliated about my height when I was a child. Then, when I became interested in what can only be described as the opposite sex, I felt that being small was a disadvantage. I felt unworthy of anything, a little runt with a twisted foot." His was not a loving home, and his parents, both of whom were also 5 ft. 2 in., seemed to have two basic emotions, fear and anxiety. "They huddled together for some sort of comfort," he says. "I don't know that either of them...
Guarding the hot corner for purple was a bony runt of a Wharton School student-to-be named Doug Silverstein. Some field no-hit plenty-talk Silverstein embodied all that was good and bad about Little League: unending enthusiasm tarnished by a willingness to steal the opposing team's equipment bag at the coach's behest. He is getting "A's" at business school...
...stunted adult was Playwright James M. Barrie; the event that maimed him, the death in a skating accident of an older brother. Jamie, who was six when the accident occurred, imitated David, and even put on his clothes. But none of it did any good: Jamie remained the runt of the family, whereas the lost David, in his mother's eyes, would always be tall, handsome, ripe with promise. "When I became a man," Barrie noted sadly, "[Da-vid] was still...
Linda runs the danger of being typecast forever as a tough runt, which is exactly what she plays in her latest film, The Wanderers, a campy teen-age gang movie in which her boyfriend is a shaven-headed, 6-ft. 6-in., 425-lb. tough named Terror. One scene required her to climb a high fence, and she notes, with satisfaction, that she rejected the director's offer of a double. She has a daredevil's face, marked by a scar that runs from the bridge of her once broken nose, across her right eyelid and down nearly...
...paper bag. Ollie Barrett lives. Marisa Berenson has four lines in the movie. No more need be said. The supporting actors are excellent, Leon Vitali stealing the show with a arch portrayal of O'Neal's step-son Lord Bullingdon, and Murray Melvin providing a pale and fading Reverend Runt...