Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mouth that should be washed out with Pine-Sol. The crowds love him, and Corky seems headed for the top and a T.V. contract -- until, inexplicably, he balks at taking a medical exam required by the network. Panicked by his agent's reassurances that he's only scared of success, Corky flees with Fats to the Catskills, where he grew up, partly to reminisce and partly to look up Peggy Ann (Ann-Margret), the girl he worshipped from afar in high school. He still loves her; her husband is on a "quick business trip" due to personal problems, and before...
...relationship with Peggy deepens, Corky confesses that he's not so much afraid of success, but of failure. Soon, however, he has something else to be scared of -- his agent, having tracked him down, catches him and Fats arguing violently over Peggy, and resolves to get Corky to a doctor. Fats doesn't care for this plan at all. Following his suggestion, Corky bops the agent over the head -- with Fats -- and dumps the body in the lake. From then on, the blood never stops flowing; some characters even die twice...
...would mean more than just a return to "civilization." It would finalize an accomplishment, something that, as one man said, I "could sit on for a long time," a kind of personal success. When I began I had never before backpacked more than three days at a stretch. Likewise, I had never been as strong physically, or as comfortable with the equipment strapped on my back or as confident in the ability of one part of my mind to suppress the fear and panic that could crop up in its other parts...
Encouraged by that success, Wolfe turned his attention to public-health hazards that he felt were not being dealt with promptly or vigorously enough by federal agencies. His alarms, sometimes strident but usually accompanied by sound documentation, have resulted in a remarkable string of Government actions affecting the use of suspected or proven cancer-causing substances. Among them...
...From the day in 1916 when he walked apprehensively into the offices of the Saturday Evening Post?already a magazine circulating 2 million copies a week?carrying a velvet-wrapped bundle of paintings and sketches to show to Editor George Lorimer, Rockwell was greeted by nothing but success. He began his career as a professional artist at a time when large-scale magazine color illustration, thanks to radically improved printing technology, had become one of the keys to mass culture?the television, one might say, of pre-electronic America. It was the illustrators' moment; born into it, Rockwell kept climbing...