Word: runyon
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...what he meant to do with the Carson impressions. Screenwriter Beckerman lifts at least two scenes from Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep. He may know quality but he cannot duplicate it, and never makes up his mind whether to do straight hard-boiled melodrama or imitation Damon Runyon. No such doubts apparently plagued the director. He establishes a consistent tone of massive mayhem. Kulik attempts to disguise every lapse in logic with a lapse in taste...
Guys and Dolls. A Damon Runyon character once bet 5 to 1 for the underdog "Harvards" over the "Yales" in the New London crew races because he figured nothing in life had odds much better than 5 to 4. The irresistable folk of Runyon's Manhattan underworld gang-up with Frank Loesser's superb songs to make this a musical offer no audience could refuse...
...Yale five entered halftime with a 22-14 lead. Radcliffe's hopes were bolstered when John Runyon pumped in four straight buckets in the first minute of the second half to pull the Crimson within two points. But Pierson pulled away again...
...Runyon led the 'Cliffe with 15 points and Charles Yon chipped...
Mullin resents a lot. He has applied his pet epithet, "no-good sonofabitch," loudly and frequently to such diverse types as Damon Runyon and Franklin Roosevelt, as well as virtually every employer he ever left. His opinion of all politicians is so low that he could not even bring himself to do cartoons of them. Mullin isn't "even sure that Lincoln was a good man," and thinks Andrew Jackson "practiced genocide against the Seminoles at least as bad as Hitler against the Jews." As for the Kennedys, "you couldn't print what I think of them...