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...Blood Sucker...
...Thompson's viciousness that kept Hubert Humphrey out of the 1976 race--too many liberals out there had been rolling in the aisles for years over Thompson's description of Hubie as "writhing like three iguanas in a feeding frenzy" over the prospect of nomination. But Thompson was a sucker for Bob Dylan. Carter courted and Carter quoted--remember the acceptance speech: "I believe in the words of Bob Dylan, that our country can be busy being born, not busy dying." And Thompson joined the ranks of the born-again...
...series of late-night thrillers was slyly supplying the same drama, the gut-unwrenching of four years of tension, that the thesis was supposed to. And though I thought I'd licked the mythology of senior year's great ritual dance, it emerged that my subconscious had been a sucker for it the whole time...
Bananas, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 21 and 22, 7 and 9:50 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 23, 8:45 p.m.; and W.C. Field's Never Give a Sucker An Even Break, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 21 and 22, 8:35 and 11:30 p.m., Sunday...
Many of the victims are self-admitted patsies, whose usual wariness evaporated in dreams of heady 12%-14% interest. "Sure I was a sucker. I thought I could double our money," concedes Philip Profita, 60, a Fort Myers machinist who bought $21,000 worth of promissory notes from now defunct Homestate Investments Inc. Even though a local banker warned him against it, Floyd Campbell, 69, a retired service engineer, invested $35,000 in what he thought was first mortgages in a Continental Investments Inc. development. "The banker said he couldn't afford to pay interest like that," Campbell recalls...