Word: scamps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study acting in New York City. Although she started as a model and chorus-line beauty, she never lost touch with the insecure, self-conscious adolescent inside her and seemed most at ease when playing a zany or a frump. Her great creation was the Lucy character, a Little Scamp who was forever conniving, forever failing, forever meriting punishment yet winning forgiveness. The thwarted schemer was a figure dating back to the Romans if not the Greeks, but Ball deftly sentimentalized the character, merged its cunning intellect with joyously low physical comedy and, perhaps most important, feminized it. Her shows...
Almost 15 hours passed before the first rescue ship -- a Panamanian & freighter, the Friasi -- could reach the scene. It was followed by the Scamp, a nuclear-powered Navy submarine, which managed to pull one sailor to safety. Two more ships, including an Israeli vessel, converged on the area, but were unable to save any of the remaining crew...
...packages of Tide, and the household he describes with clear-eyed affection is governed by all the rites of any middle-class family anywhere -- watching TV on weekends, anxiously awaiting exam results, going for picnics in the countryside. The narrator himself appears to have been a regular little scamp who delighted in gambling with rubber bands, spraying his friends with Pepsi at his elder sister's wedding and lining up with his schoolmates in a bright new uniform to greet a foreign dignitary with the cry of "Long life to Jacqueline Kennedy...
...shady and quick to grab a buck, not a tattered idealist clinging to principle; he is snippy not only to those in authority but also to working people and the down and out. Fletch, Too (Warner; 249 pages; $15.95) is Mcdonald's ninth and & allegedly last book about this scamp, although only the second in the chronology of Fletch's career: after the character proved a hit, Mcdonald worked forward and backward to fill in his story. In this volume, Fletch sets off to Kenya in search of his father, who has apparently resurfaced after being presumed dead...
...tough guy who did not need bodyguards, liked Sinatra and thought him "amusing because he's a skinny little bastard and his bones kind of rattle together." But the stories Kelley has assembled are too numerous and grubby to be passed off as the forgivable sins of an amusing scamp, or of a tough-but-decent slum kid who made good. During the 1968 filming of Lady in Cement, according to Producer's Assistant Michael Viner, a prostitute complained that Sinatra had asked her to stay for breakfast after an all-night party, and then used a knife and fork...