Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beginning in 1955 with an aging tramp steamer, Pao has built a fleet of 3.5 million tons, most of it in ultramodern supertankers and bulk carriers. By comparison, Niarchos controls 3.4 million tons and Onassis 4.3 million. Pao's navy has the distinct advantage of being practically brand new. But by early 1975, when some $800 million in new ships that he has already ordered are delivered, the Pao armada will total about 10 million tons. With an average age of less than 3.5 years, it will be the largest and newest private fleet on the seas...
...Dolce Vita, Satyricori) is firmly in the first category. In his new film, The Clowns, Fellini separates mankind into two classic species of fool: Pierrot and Auguste. Pierrot is the familiar circus clown in floppy white and conical hat, elegant and haughty. The clown Auguste is an eternal tramp, crumpled, drunken and rebellious...
...been a most precious pressure to have temporarily strolled in your garden"; a song; and a play. The play is a two-man, one-act affair, written by Stephen and Joel's uncle, about two dogs, with amplified social overtones along the lines of Disney's Lady and the Tramp...
...just me, see." he says. "If some people don't notice me, that's good. I got enough people pestering me. I'm making money, ain't I? That's enough for me." When Ali starts his familiar gate-hypoing routine by calling Joe a "chump," "impostor," "amateur" and "tramp," Frazier mutters something about "childishness" and goes on his way. Joe is proud of his rough skills and his success, proud of being a poor black who made good. "I ain't no Tom," he growls. It nettles him slightly that black celebrities?from Julian Bond to Bill Cosby...
...inventions. The Brooklyn Bum was born one afternoon in the 1930s after the downtrodden Dodgers dropped yet another game at Ebbets Field. A cab driver carrying Mullin back to Manhattan asked him, "How'd our Bums do today?" The designation seemed brilliantly appropriate, and the woebegone tramp made his debut in the paper next day. Mullin affectionately dubbed the Dodgers Bums, and the sobriquet stuck. Before long, other cartoonists were forced to devise their own bums to denote the Dodgers...