Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After dinner Kennedy turns to Campbell and asks her to help him set up a meeting with an acquaintance of hers, "Sam Flood," who is actually the Mafia boss Sam Giancana. "I'd be happy to," she tells him. "Why?" Kennedy's reply is wonderfully straightforward. "Well, I think he can help me with the campaign." Next he asks if she would mind conveying a little package to Giancana in Chicago. It turns out to be a satchel full of cash, maybe $250,000, in hundred-dollar bills. Would it be safe to transport so much money? asks the awestruck...
...Then there are other times ? Cuba-missile-crisis moments when events threaten to spin beyond even Uncle Sam?s control. Times when the size of your stick must be matched by the softness of your voice. What Washington seems to have realized in the last week is that the current Iraqi crisis falls decisively into the latter category...
...possessions and the ambiance suggest a couple at prosperous midlife. But Sam and Caitlin have been married just three weeks. They are all of 25. In a society where House & Garden and This Old House are staples, it's not surprising that homemaking is hot. What is startling is that twentysomethings are more and more the converts to and trendsetters of nesting. Weary of kicking up their heels, they have turned to settling in with the same zeal they once gave barhopping...
PULP PROPHET White-maned, white-suited, his omnipresent cigar cocked at a jaunty angle, Sam Fuller, encountered in Parisian exile, briefly stilled the stream of consciousness that usually rushed across his gravel-bed larynx. He was searching for something he rarely offered in his movies--a neat summarizing idea. "That's it," he finally offered. "A director takes a song, a lyric, and makes a symphony of it. Does that make sense...
Yeah, but not in Sam's case--unless you thought of him as a sort of Charles Ives, drawing on the vernacular only to subvert it with a big, blatting off-key note. Like the brave soldier who spreads his battlefield picnic on a fallen foe's body; the beautiful blond whose wig falls off in a fight to reveal a perfectly bald pate; the western hero who coolly plugs his lover when the bad guy tries to use her as a shield in a gun fight. Sam didn't strain for these bold, indelible moments. They just came naturally...