Word: scars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sliding from pathos to pathology and back again, Smithereens has the judgmental attitudes of a Hollywood "expose" with little of the craft. For every quirky glimpse of street life (a ten-year-old boy running a three-card monte scam, a prostitute who will "show you my scar for $5"), there is a derisive stereotype of the working-class drudges who get in Wren's way. Wren is so determinedly self-destructive that it becomes hard to care about her fate. Nonetheless, Berman does her best to bring this tough, tart Irma la Douce to life. She and Brad...
...sitting there, and I said, 'Hey, pal! What's going on here?'And he had this smile, and when he smiled he had these big white teeth like luxury hotels on the Florida coastline. And when he closed his mouth it looked like a big scar. And I said to myself, 'Holy smokes-looks like some kind of guest-host relationship...
...office. The presidency has aged other men decades in years. Reagan's face is still rosy, and if he has more wrinkles, they are not particularly noticeable. For a man of 71, he is in remarkable physical condition. The most prominent change since Inauguration Day is not the scar left by a would-be assassin's bullet in March 1981 but the 1½ in. of new muscle added to his chest by daily workouts with a weight machine in the White House family quarters. Says Presidential Assistant Richard Darman: "He is fantastically resilient...
...accepted a $2.3 million bribe from Tanaka in exchange for political support. The court action failed to materialize. The charge was resurrected in the press, but without much impact, during the latest leadership campaign. Nonetheless, notes one veteran Japanese political observer of the scandal, "it's the scar on his shin...
Beyond all the square rings and vicious circles, beneath every blob of nose and billow of scar tissue, there is a common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...