Word: scuffler
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...pictures, ironically, capture the wrong image of Walter Reuther. While he arrived on the national scene as a scuffler with blood on his face, he would evolve into one of labor's most dynamic and innovative leaders, as well as a humanitarian whose impact ranged well beyond his field. His achievements were guided by his oft expressed philosophy of human endeavor: "There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well." Reuther believed it wholeheartedly and, as they...
Linda Manz. "I didn't have to act. I just did it. I was brought up scared, so I act scared." Linda Manz, a street-corner scuffler with old eyes, whose half-deaf mother worked as a cleaning woman in Manhattan, tells about her first film role as Richard Gere's kid sister in Days of Heaven. "Ursula was the name of the character at first, but they changed it to Linda, 'cause it was me. It ain't no girl in the 1900s." The film is a strange, dreamlike reminiscence of days when migrant harvesters followed steam-driven threshing...
...street-smart scuffler busts out of the back alleys
...tour to promote Foreign Affairs, his fifth album, Waits is playing in fewer of the seedy nightclubs that have long been his backdrop as a performer and his inspiration as an artist. At 27, he is a street-smart scuffler who writes knowingly of dingy bars, all-night diners and down-and-outers on the make. Says he: "Life is picking up a girl with bad teeth, or getting to know one of those wild-eyed rummies down on Sixth Avenue...
Such figures, no doubt once true enough, are now quite dated. Today's manager is a beaverish scuffler who stays in boxing only because it is the life he knows. The fighter often tells the manager what to do. He may still be chased into the ring by the pinch of poverty and some inner reach toward identity, but he usually does not accept pain and futility for long. If he does stay in and doesn't make it, as Leonard Gardner shows in this moving and perceptive first novel, he will find the modern fight scene, though...