Word: screws
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Dean Martin did what he wanted -- drink, screw around, play golf, make a bundle -- with little effort and on his own terms. The son of Italian immigrants, Dino Crocetti learned fast the American genius for appropriation. He swiped somebody else's voice, altered his name twice and his nose once, sold 105% of himself to early investors. He took plenty from everyone and didn't give back much but a kind of low-level radiance. He was a gambler, yes, but even more a dealer; it was the trade he plied as a youth in Ohio gambling joints and later...
Bishop, like Wiles, says cervical dislocationis too dependent on the skill of the executioner."One person may screw it up and cause unspeakabletrauma," Bishop says...
...here comes the philosophical part),success in college is measured not by your GPA oryour list of friends, it's measured by yourintellectual and emotional growth andsatisfaction--the feeling that, no matter whatgoes wrong, you're always doing what you want todo. Believe it or not, you can screw up your firstyear here. And you should. It's worth...
...appearing on The Arsenio Hall Show last week, Bill Clinton may have discovered the formula to revive his stalled campaign: exploit his sax appeal. During the brief rehearsal for the talk show, the visiting saxophone player joked nervously with the band, "If I screw up, play louder." Clinton need not have worried. So what if his wraparound shades were borrowed from an aide, the phosphorescent blue-and-yellow tie came from the show's wardrobe department, and some of the cool was donated by the adoring host? The image that came across on TV was that of a relaxed, self...
...operative who, friends say, was restless in the private sector and still angry at an Administration that had never embraced him. When Bush aides sent feelers about his organizing California for Bush, Rollins exploded, "I ran 50 states!" Explained a Rollins partisan: "For Ed, part of this is the screw-you factor...