Word: skinnerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After an Illinois public aid worker first reported his suspicions, U.S. Attorney Sam ("the Hammer") Skinner, 38, put two lawyers and three FBI agents on the case virtually full time. They found a tangle of doctors, clinics, medical labs and pharmacies that hauled in fat Government payments and fed kick backs to one another for unnecessary or fictional patient examinations, clinic visits, tests and prescriptions. The investigation was maddeningly difficult because both patients and personnel at the ghetto health centers tended to be transient, and the fraudulent paper work involved was hard to track in the disarray of federal...
Warren Motley plays the love-beleagured Clarence, Jr. with a suitable adolescent hunch; particularly good are his scenes opposite the spunky but innocent Mary Skinner (Cindy Rosenthal). His younger brothers John (Scott Maitland) and Whitney (William Price Schwalbe) are also fine, though they tend at times to resort to predictable grimacing and posturing. Little Harlan (Jeffrey Manwaring) is a delightful seven-year-old--quietly cute with a minimum of the necessary saccharine. The rest of the supporting cast are fine character types, though the maids might do well by talking some of the squeal out of their crying scenes...
...quite a few of George Wallace's diehard supporters remained dour at their favorite's demise. Lester Skinner, 57, a Gaffney, S.C., real estate broker, cast a reluctant vote for Carter only after looking his hero in the eye and asking him "if he really meant we should support Carter. He told me he really meant it." Skinner expects Wallace supporters to "follow George's advice and vote for Carter over Reagan" if the Californian is nominated...
...recent graduates will also attempt to cover the 26 miles: Dirk Skinner '75 ("R 78," a 2:40 in the Philadelphia Road Runner Club Marathon) and Bob Pinkas '75 ("543," a 2:57.20 in the Jersey Shore Marathon...
...Skinner and Tony Green chalked up tris accounting for Harvard's 8 points...