Word: sam
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...backboards is one of the most violent in sport. Said Sonny Werblin, president of Madison Square Garden, which owns the New York Knicks, on hearing of the signing: "It's disgraceful, a travesty." Others accused the faltering Pacers of signing Meyers solely for publicity. Said Seattle SuperSonics Owner Sam Schulman: "It's a stunt, like Bill Veeck signing a midget when he owned a baseball team." But for Ann Meyers, it is the fulfillment of a dream, and she has no qualms. Said she: "I can dribble and make plays as well as anybody in the league...
...Buck") Steiner, 79, a former rodeo star and owner of the Austin-based Capitol Saddlery. His boots take from five to nine weeks to complete, and prices range from $250 for cowhide to $1,000 for a pair of alligators. But the unquestioned doyen of the Texas bootmakers is Sam Lucchese (pronounced Lew Casey), who is, says Steiner, "in a class by himself, the best in the business...
Certainly the narration does nothing to rescue Willard's thinly sketched crewmates (Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms and Larry Fishburne). They are typical American kids who inexplicably travel together for days without ever engaging in intimate conversation. When they go mad in the film's second half, their transformations seem arbitrarily decreed by Coppola rather than dramatically justified. We feel nothing. Still, the crew members are almost Dostoyevskian in complexity compared with the deranged Kurtz. When we finally meet the renegade at his camp of Montagnard disciples, Apocalypse Now collapses into a terminal anticlimax. An overweight, bald...
Everybody, of course, picks on Texas, and rightly so. Texas, after all, has imagined itself to be No. 1 in chauvinism ever since the days of Sam Houston, who proclaimed: "Texas could exist without the U.S., but the U.S. cannot, except at very great hazard, exist without Texas." Thanks to its flamboyant style of braggadocio, Texas is indeed among the front runners in the American art of blowing hard, excelling in what Edna Ferber called the knack of "confusing bigness with greatness." Yet the truth is that in patrician Boston the chauvinism is just as dependable, and its expression...
...Last year he offered a seminar at the Institute of Politics on "Chicano Political Development." Next year, Lopez says, he will be teaching a General Education course on the development of Hispanic communities in America. His past work includes My Brother Lyndon, a biography of the President written with Sam Houston Johnson, and Afro-6, a novel about the urban street life of New York. Lopez is a jack of all trades--at least when it comes to writing. His next book is entitled Eros and Ethos: A Comparative Study of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant Sex Behavior...