Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps more like sport. "The Bible says, 'Ask and you shall receive,' " notes Brown, 35, and he has taken the injunction to heart, especially when fortified with a few shots of cheap vodka and beer ("When I'm sober, I have my pride"). He cannily tailors his pitch to his victims. "I can tell right off if they'll give me money," he says. "If they look like they might halfway give me something, then I run a sympathy line on them. If they look like they won't, then I give them a worse sympathy line...
...falls in with, and then in love with, Gary (Tom Berenger), the man of her darkest dreams. For such a paranoid gent, he is pretty quick to accept Cathy. Before you can say "George Lincoln Rockwell," he has invited her to a "coon hunt" -- ten white men having fatal sport with one innocent black. Before you can mutter "Zionist Occupation Government," he has taken her on dates to a paramilitary campground, a bank robbery and a political assassination. (Guess it beats dinner and a movie.) As Gary's angel-face seven-year-old daughter tells Cathy...
...Sport...
...successfully passed one milestone in the process: his freshman year of high school. His still boyish face is framed by a square- edged haircut. Josh has always been small for his age. That bothers him but does not slow him down. Barely 5 ft. tall, he competes in a sport of giants: his ambidextrous dribbling helped him become starting point guard on the ninth-grade basketball team at Belmont High School in suburban Boston...
...Sport...